We mean “EA meta” in the sense of EA organizations that aren’t directly attacking the object level problems (Global Poverty, Animal Welfare, GCRs, etc) but are instead attacking them in a more indirect (and hopefully more leveraged) way. Some broad categories that would count as “meta” are:
· Organizations focused on improving or growing the EA community (e.g. CEA, 80k)
· Organizations fundraising for effective causes (e.g. Founders Pledge)
· Organizations doing priorities research (e.g. GPI)
The way the EA funds partition the EA space (into Poverty/Animals/Far-Future/Meta) has actually been around for a while (for example here).
We mean “EA meta” in the sense of EA organizations that aren’t directly attacking the object level problems (Global Poverty, Animal Welfare, GCRs, etc) but are instead attacking them in a more indirect (and hopefully more leveraged) way. Some broad categories that would count as “meta” are:
· Organizations focused on improving or growing the EA community (e.g. CEA, 80k)
· Organizations fundraising for effective causes (e.g. Founders Pledge)
· Organizations doing priorities research (e.g. GPI)
The way the EA funds partition the EA space (into Poverty/Animals/Far-Future/Meta) has actually been around for a while (for example here).