“What I’m celebrating from EA and adjacent work in 2024” by Emma Lou

“What I’m celebrating from EA and adjacent work in 2024” by Emma Lou

As 2024 draws to a close, I’m reflecting on the work and stories that inspired me this year: those from the effective altruism community, those I found out about through EA-related channels, and those otherwise related to EA.

I’ve appreciated the celebration of wins and successes over the past few years from @Shakeel Hashim's posts in 2022 and 2023. As @Lizka and @MaxDalton put very well in a post in 2022:

We often have high standards in effective altruism. This seems absolutely right: our work matters, so we must constantly strive to do better.

But we think that it's really important that the effective altruism community celebrate successes:

  • If we focus too much on failures, we incentivize others/ourselves to minimize the risk of failure, and we will probably be too risk averse.
  • We're humans: we're more motivated if we celebrate things that have gone well.

Rather than attempting [...]

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Outline:

(01:51) What progress in the world did you find exciting?

(03:11) What individual stories inspired you?

(04:26) What popular media or articles did you appreciate?

(05:37) What writing from this year did you appreciate or find compelling?

(06:15) What made you grateful or excited to be involved in or related to effective altruism?

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First published:
December 31st, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SkfMyerJ5bGK7scnW/what-i-m-celebrating-from-ea-and-adjacent-work-in-2024

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