Hey Will, congrats on the book! Looking forward to reading it. Personally, one of the most striking parts of your New Yorker profile was the descriptions of consistent austerity, keeping with the Singer-ian, personal sacrifice aesthetic of early EA and earning to give. Besides the obvious global health successes, such ambitious Giving What We Can pledges that set a cap on personal consumption or apportioned large %s of income to be donated are part of what moved me into the EA movement. How do you think the growth of longtermism as a cause interacts with these personal austerity (eg GWWC/Further pledge) parts of EA principles and practice?
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Hey Will, congrats on the book! Looking forward to reading it. Personally, one of the most striking parts of your New Yorker profile was the descriptions of consistent austerity, keeping with the Singer-ian, personal sacrifice aesthetic of early EA and earning to give. Besides the obvious global health successes, such ambitious Giving What We Can pledges that set a cap on personal consumption or apportioned large %s of income to be donated are part of what moved me into the EA movement. How do you think the growth of longtermism as a cause interacts with these personal austerity (eg GWWC/Further pledge) parts of EA principles and practice?
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