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Gleb_Tsipursky comments on “Be A Superdonor!”: Promoting Effective Altruism by Appealing to the Heart - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 09 November 2015 06:20PM

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Comment author: bogus 10 November 2015 10:44:21AM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure that there are many people who are exclusively "emotionally-oriented" - or "analytically-oriented", for that matter. Rather, the idea is that by appealing to both the "head" and the "heart" we can convey a fuller message about EA, and that this will amplify our reach among people who otherwise might not know about it or take it seriously.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 11 November 2015 12:03:45AM -1 points [-]

Yup, agreed that no one is exclusively emotional or analytical - this is a spectrum.

and I made sure in the post above to emphasize that we should keep the current EA outreach oriented toward the head, but also enrich it with an orientation toward the heart. Let's be real, people who are really emotionally oriented will still not care much about EA. But we can reach much further on the spectrum of the analytical/emotional toward emotional than we are currently doing.