Centre for Effective Altruism Is No Longer "Effective Altruism"-Related

Glad you've made this move. I personally prefer to identify as EA-adjacent-adjacent nowadays, and would encourage others to do the same. 

I'm not the expert on effective altruism. I don't identify with that terminology. My impression is that it's a bit of an outdated term.

"It's like keeping all the benefits of a community while refusing to contribute to its future development or taking responsibility for its challenges. Win-win!"

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I like how spicy this is. 

I really appreciate everyone working on EA movement building anyway, and I would hope everyone takes a moment to consider how much they've benefitted from the EA movement, how much they've contributed and how they feel about the balance. 

Many movements get worse over time. They grow, at some point the first scandals inevitably happen, some great leaders and communicators decide to reduce their affiliation, the public image gets lower quality, this makes it harder to get new leaders and communicators on board, etc. I'm glad we're not there yet, I still meet many inspiring people at EAGs or local EA meetups, but the risk is real, and if EA dies I don't see which other movement could fill that gap. 

Many thanks to CEA and other EA community builders for all your hard work, and [edit] to people who don't hide their EA affiliation and keep publicly advocating for the movement and the ideas. 

A bit too spot on to be an April fools day joke! This is valid commentary. 

Great update! To further reduce PR risks, CEA should also stop doing anything controversial and keep doing everything people expect it to. 

Be inclusive, welcome everyone, don't try to 'control' the EA brand in any way, and take full responsibility when a few of the ~10,000 active EAs says or does something bad in the name of EA. Grow the movement and keep it as pure as the early days. Prioritize the highest expected value programs and treat all cause areas equally.

(this is obviously exaggerated, but you get the point. Kudos to CEA for navigating all these hard trade-offs so well!)

RP actually did some empirical testing on this and we concluded that people really like the name "Effective Altruism", but not the ideas, values or mission. 

That's unfortunate. But I think it suggests there's scope for a new 'Centre for Effective Altruism' to push forward exciting new ideas that have more mainstream appeal, like raising awareness of the cause du jour, while the rebranded Center for ████████ continues to focus on all the unpopular stuff.

Can't wait to meet other TONOPWAPSATIAWCDOTOWMAANBists^[1] at CGoLMIWMAKEOBDAPoASMC this year!

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   The Network Of People Who All Pursue Systematic Altruism Together In A Way Causally Downstream Of Toby Ord, Will MacAskill, And Nick Bostrom^[2]

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   It's unclear what the first O in "TONOP..." stands for, but considering how memorable and widely-adopted this terminology has become, it would be unwise to change this now.

Wishing Centre For, the best of luck!

CEA: now EA-adjacent!

Ok but will you commit to funding Ubers home for all your Conference guests? #Stewardship 

It's kind of sad this hits the spot so hard lol.

Let's take the next decisive step and turn it into a proper guerilla underground movement! We must all scatter and during the day pretend to be effective egoists, but when the night falls we will show our real faces...

So glad Consequentialism is out, and we can finally follow our feelings!! it feels so dang good. I love being a human with feelings. All these years denying it to follow mathematical algorithms like a robot was tiring. Feelings are super effective!! I suppose we'll need a new introduction course where we explain to smart people what feelings are, and how they are already included and fully installed in us but we just need to put a check mark in that one box to turn them on, and boom when you do that suddenly you see a whole new world and there's lots of art everywhere too. Finally EA will have some art, coz us feeling humans of course demand it. 

This post made my day (to be fair, it's only 7:40am, but whatever, I doubt anything else can put such a big smile on my face in the remaining 15+ hours). 

Great article, Centre for what now? 😀 

Amazing rebranding skills, team