“An Elephant in the Community Building room.” by Kaleem

These are my own views, and not those of my employer, EVOps, or of CEA who I have contracted for in the past and am currently contracting for now. This was meant to be a strategy fortnight contribution, but it's now a super delayed/unofficial, and underwritten strategy fortnight contribution. [1] Before you read this: This is pretty emotionally raw, so please 1) don’t update too much on it if you think I’m just being dramatic 2) I might come back and endorse or delete this at some point. I’ve put off writing this for a long time, because I know that some of the conclusions or implications might be hurtful or cause me to become even more unpopular than I already feel I am - as a result, I’ve left it really brief, but I’m willing to make it more through if I get the sense that people think it’d be [...] ---Outline:(00:21) Before you read this:(01:20) Summary:(01:40) Introduction(02:07) Global EA(03:19) Narrow EA(04:58) Reasons I think this is important and should be addressed:(07:14) Reasons not to address this:(07:48) Reasons I might be wrong:(08:16) Other notes:(09:08) About me:(09:36) Thanks:The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: August 21st, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uxrAdXdYpXodrggto/an-elephant-in-the-community-building-room --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.