DjangoCorte comments on 2014 Survey of Effective Altruists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thebestwecan 01 May 2014 05:36:01PM *  4 points [-]

It was used in the Felicifia community, although it wasn't used as definitively as it is now. Although 'strategic altruism' was more common although that wasn't as catchy. It was also just used in casual conversation.

I could be wrong though.

Comment author: DjangoCorte 01 May 2014 05:55:18PM 3 points [-]

This 'official' account gives the impression that no term had much common currency, apart from the jokey 'super-hardcore do-gooder' before the end of 2011. I can't comment about whether other branches of the community used terms in a similar way- I've never heard of felicifia. http://www.effective-altruism.com/the-history-of-the-term-effective-altruism/

Comment author: Drayin 03 May 2014 07:27:15PM 5 points [-]

lukeprog (Luke Muehlhauser) objects to CEA's claim that EA grew primarily out of Giving What We Can at http://www.effectivealtruism.org/#comments :

This was a pretty surprising sentence. Weren’t LessWrong & GiveWell growing large, important parts of the community before GWWC existed? It wasn’t called “effective altruism” at the time, but it was largely the same ideas and people.

Comment author: thebestwecan 06 May 2014 11:49:17PM 6 points [-]

I agree with Luke here. CEA seems to often overstate its role in the EA movement (another example at http://centreforeffectivealtruism.org/).

Comment author: DjangoCorte 04 May 2014 09:04:29AM 3 points [-]

I certainly agree that effective altruism existed long before GWWC.

The discussion I'm addressing though is about the origin of the term "effective altruist."

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