I want to raise two points here:

(1)

One of the most stressful situations a lab rat or human can be in is a position of responsibility with no power. Adopting an EA identity confers a sense of responsibility for oneself - a tremendous, sickening amount in my personal experience. I hope publicising one's new-found status as an EA helps confer a moral superiority among one's associates that leads to a fitting amount of influence!

(2)

Many of the comments here raise concerns about the method and consequences of being public about your goods deeds.

This is a message to Effective Altruists here, for whom doing good deeds has become a noun - part of their identity.

Some Pick Up Artists use the term 'grounding' to convey their identity through a well constructed routine. Some commonalities identifies in these routines are:

1. A short, memorable brand for what you routinely do: “Rockstar, Entrepreneur, Magician, Speaker, Writer, Hacker”

That is:

• Effective Altruist (preferred, but only for well-informed circles)
• philanthropists (if you are high enough status but in uninformed circles)
• Socially conscious (else)

1. How you got from being a normal kid to your dream role

• for me it's that I visited poorer countries as a kid, and was physically and verbally abused regularly by a parent and developed a highly polarised attitude to harm suffering and self-reliance. The former 2 made me altruistic, the latter 1 developed my effectivenes.

1. What you are doing now in relation to show you are/identity

2. Your future plans for continuing this journey

3. Telling all this with genuine passion, intrigue and enthusiasm.