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Changemakers Fellowship
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Changemakers Fellowship
History to shape history
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Indirectly or earlier via Leaf
10 (28%)4 (15%)14 (22%)11 (31%)7 (26%)18 (29%)“My friend had told me about effective altruism after they attended Leaf last year and I then watched a TED Talk about it.”
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Through Non-Trivial
4 (11%)3 (11%)7 (11%)5 (14%)3 (11%)8 (13%)“I was introduced to effective altruism through finding an advert for non-trivial on Instagram. Unsure as to what it was, I searched it up on google and read the wikipedia article on it.”
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Through a class or teacher at school
2 (6%)3 (11%)5 (8%)4 (11%)5 (19%)9 (14%)“The concept of effective altruism has been discussed within the ethics component of my Religious Studies A Level, and was particularly mentioned in relevance to Peter Singer”
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Peter Singer1 (3%)3 (11%)4 (6%)3 (8%)3 (11%)6 (10%)“I have read Peter Singer's work, particularly, 'The life you can save'”
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Through a school or extra-curricular club
1 (3%)3 (11%)4 (6%)3 (8%)6 (22%)9 (14%)“I learnt about effective altruism through a debating society I was part of at my secondary school.”
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Friend3 (8%)0 (0%)3 (5%)8 (22%)5 (19%)13 (21%)“I heard about effective altruism whilst chatting to an activist friend, [redacted], who does a lot of work with philantrophist and the UN.”
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YouTube or TED talk
3 (8%)0 (0%)3 (5%)5 (14%)3 (11%)8 (13%)“The YouTuber Jade Bowler did some research into it which I thought sounded interesting.”
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Article / media / other book
0 (0%)2 (7%)2 (3%)4 (11%)3 (11%)7 (11%)“I read an article a few years ago discussing 80,000 Hours and effective altruism. Beyond that I'm only vaguely familiar with EA as a utilitarian-esque activist movement.”
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Will MacAskill (inc WWOTF)
0 (0%)2 (7%)2 (3%)1 (3%)5 (19%)6 (10%)“YouTube, came across William MacAskill. [redacted] (Leaf fellow/former fellow) at [my] School (now at Oxford) introduced some of these ideas additionally.”
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LessWrong or rationality community
2 (6%)0 (0%)2 (3%)3 (8%)0 (0%)3 (5%)“Reading LessWrong blog”
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Googling or independent research
1 (3%)0 (0%)1 (2%)3 (8%)5 (19%)8 (13%)“I researched effective altruism when writing a philosophy essay on improving future human relations.”
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80,000 Hours1 (3%)0 (0%)1 (2%)3 (8%)2 (7%)3 (5%)“I came across the website 80,000 hours and read some of its articles, which then led me to delve deeper and read more around the topic.”
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Other EA book2 (6%)2 (7%)4 (6%)(Permissive) “My brother, [redacted] attended Leaf last year and I read The Precipice and a bit of The Scout Mindset.”
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EA Forum1 (3%)1 (4%)2 (3%)(Permissive) “I came across it after viewing a post about Leaf by [redacted; former Leaf participant] on LinkedIn and I explored further by visiting the leaf website, the EA website, the EA forum, 80000 hours website and podcast and reading about longtermism in news articles.”
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Philosophy / ethics interest
6 (17%)2 (7%)8 (13%)(Permissive) “I heard about effective altruism from my philosophy society. From there, I read a few articles on the topic. I think there were a few along the lines of connecting SBF to ruining effective altruism”
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NA9 (25%)4 (15%)13 (21%)5 (14%)4 (15%)9 (14%)“Hadn’t heard of it before - Looking through the Leaf website gave some information.”
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