Episode Details

“What is integral altruism?” by EuanMcLean

Published 1 month ago

Description

Recently, a growing group of EAs, EA-adjacents, post-EAs and EA-curious folk have been gathering and organising around a new term - integral altruism (int/a). The central claims of int/a are that the EA toolkit is powerful but incomplete, and that EA can learn from other movements who are trying to improve the world.

The goal of int/a is to find a broader approach to altruism by integrating EA with epistemics/ontologies/world models/language/culture from outside of the EA/rationalist bubble. More specifically, we reckon EA can be most constructively complemented by learning from movements, communities and thinkers who emphasise wisdom. Accordingly, our intellectual lineage is a combination of EA/rationalism and the liminal/metamodern/metacrisis world.

We’ve run a whole bunch of events of various flavours and have plans for more. These included residential retreats, reading/discussion groups (e.g.), a speaker series (e.g.), deliberative technology experiments (e.g.), workshops (e.g.), hackathons (e.g.), and more. In the future we’d love to try running more ambitious projects like conferences, incubators, or fellowships. We’re currently looking for funding.

What is this for?

There are many of us who want to improve the world but feel that EA in its current form is unable to sustainably support us to cultivate and [...]

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Outline:

(01:34) What is this for?

(03:54) The (tentative) integral altruism principles

(05:14) 1. Full-Spectrum Knowing

(06:58) 2. Moving at the Speed of Wisdom

(08:18) 3. Decoupling & Recoupling

(09:33) 4. Practicing Fractal Altruism

(10:49) 5. Inner Work, Outer Change

(12:14) Whats happening?