ChristianKl comments on 2014 Survey of Effective Altruists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 03 May 2014 07:31:17PM 12 points [-]

Which social movements would you add to that list?

Comment author: jkaufman 09 May 2014 05:23:28PM 3 points [-]

Tea Party?

Comment author: Nornagest 09 May 2014 06:32:23PM *  8 points [-]

Evangelical Christianity has aspects of a social movement, but I doubt we'd turn up any evangelicals here. Not that this is necessarily a problem if the goal is to avoid Blue/Green priming.

If we're just looking for stuff that isn't stereotypically left-wing, men's rights and free software also come to mind.

Comment author: nda 11 May 2014 07:18:29AM *  6 points [-]

free software

Agreed. Open source was at least part of my fill in for several questions. edit: to expound.. just so much inherit value in free software – even from the smallest packages or simplest library – that we've all created immeasurable value from, and as technology progresses I really see free software as one of our greatest collective assets.

Comment author: tog 11 May 2014 05:28:25PM 2 points [-]

Evangelical Christianity is a good idea, I'll add it. 'Free software' might be reasonably common, and is an audience EAs could target. I'll look at a list of common write-ins.

Comment author: tog 11 May 2014 05:27:12PM 4 points [-]

Yes, that does count as a movement, I'll add it as clear signalling that we're not assuming people are left-wing (in this year's survey, when I get time to tweak my Perl scripts).