Two Concepts of EA

Published on May 22, 2026 11:11 PM GMT A lot of conversations evaluating EA — both internal and external — run on a slippage between two things that sometimes go by the same name. It seems quite important to me to separate the philosophical core of EA—to the extent that one can be identified and defined, and the social fact—as it exists as an empirical phenomenon. The points I want to make in this essay are pretty banal, but I think keeping them straight clears up a fair amount of confusion. Con