It’s not my Substack, nor is the post a meme—it’s a link to an essay by a long-time EA-adjacent blogger. Reddit grabbed the first image it saw for a preview.
Since I probably should’ve provided a tl;dr:
I think, when you talk about effective altruist “optics” or “public relations” or anything like that, you should make a concrete claim like this:
[Specific person, demographic, organization, or group of organizations] should [take specific action], which I think will have [specific consequence] because [specific reason].
You should not make a claim like this:
Effective altruists should stop with the [vague concept I dislike] because it’s bad for the movement.
I like that it makes a case for a simple but concrete change in how EAs talk about optics, especially since it’s been a hot topic lately.
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u/No_Logins_Required 1d ago
Please do not post a meme without any context linking back to your substack. If you have something worth saying you can share it with us here.