Comment by old_landfish (landfish) on Celebrating All Who Are in Effective Altruism · 2016-02-15T21:53:30.659Z · LW · GW

Exactly.

I know several students are working hard to gain the skills necessary to make big impacts, especially on XRisk reduction. They identify as EAs, and I think it would be the wrong move to tell them they're not "real EAs" because they aren't donating money to EA charities.