Resource neutrality and levels vs kinds of demandingness
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Caroline Ellison recently argued that effective altruist debates on demandingness often focus exclusively on frugality: how much to sacrifice in terms of money or material resources. She argues that there are many ways in which effective altruism could be demanding: e.g. in terms of time (how hard to work), epistemics (how hard to fight motivated reasoning), or status (willingness to take a less prestigious but higher-impact job). The notion that demandingness is solely about money conflates two issues, in her view: how demanding EA should be, and how EA should value different resources (e.g. time and money) relative to each other.
Resource neutrality and levels vs kinds of demandingness
Resource neutrality and levels vs kinds of…
Resource neutrality and levels vs kinds of demandingness
Caroline Ellison recently argued that effective altruist debates on demandingness often focus exclusively on frugality: how much to sacrifice in terms of money or material resources. She argues that there are many ways in which effective altruism could be demanding: e.g. in terms of time (how hard to work), epistemics (how hard to fight motivated reasoning), or status (willingness to take a less prestigious but higher-impact job). The notion that demandingness is solely about money conflates two issues, in her view: how demanding EA should be, and how EA should value different resources (e.g. time and money) relative to each other.