
EA Global: Communicating Complex Concepts (Julia Galef, Rob Reich, Tim Urban & Eliezer Yudkowsky)
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How to Mobilize a Broad Community With EA
Michael Pollan or Peter Singer in the book about food Michael Pollan wins by a long shot. Will McCaskill's new book which I had but is now in the back of the room you all have too will be less effective in mobilizing a broad community than Larissa McFarker's book due to come out next month. One thing EA is good at doing is not erecting a kind of wall between reason and emotion it's absolutely both philosophically possible morally commendable and humanly understandable to move emotionally by what you're committed to rationally. An example of how of this this concept is the opposite of awareness is ignorance and delusion, that bad things happen from ignorance and delusion
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