MattG comments on 2014 Survey of Effective Altruists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SaidAchmiz 02 May 2014 05:13:51PM 10 points [-]

I've now checked out the survey, and have a couple of comments (which I put into the comments field and am reposting here). #1 is important, #2 less so:

  1. On moral philosophy: "Consequentialist/utilitarian" should be broken up into something like "Utilitarian" and "Other consequentialist (not utilitarian)", because I am a consequentialist and (probably) not a utilitarian, and that disagreement is one of my main points of contention with the EA movement.

  2. I had no idea how to answer the "political views" question. Are these positions ("left", "centre", etc.) supposed to be on the American (U.S.) political spectrum? That'd be my default assumption, but the British/Canadian spelling suggests otherwise... in any case, at least offer as many options as e.g. the Lesswrong survey did.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 May 2014 04:42:22AM 1 point [-]

Why are you taking the effective altruists survey?

Comment author: SaidAchmiz 11 May 2014 06:29:42AM 2 points [-]