Diego Caleiro · 2014-11-18 · EA Forum
I made a map with the opinions of many Effective Altruists and how they changed over the years.
My sample was biased by people I live with and read. I tried to account for many different starting points, and of course, I got many people's opinions wrong, since I was just estimating them.
Nevertheless there seems to be a bottleneck on accepting Bostrom's Existential Risk as The Most Important Task for Humanity. If the trend is correct, and if it continues, it would generate many interesting predictions about where new EA's will come from.
Here, have a look:
http://i.imgur.com/jQhoQOZ.png
For the file itself (open through the program yED by clicking File -> Open URL and copying the link below):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72402501/EA%20flowchart%20Web.graphml
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