Thanks for sharing this—I really appreciate the transparency!
A quick question on the attendees: Are there any other (primarily) animal advocacy-focused folks within the 43 attendees or is it just Lewis? I don’t know the exact breakdown of meta EA efforts across various cause areas but I would be somewhat surprised if meta animal work was below 2% of all of meta EA spending (as is implied by your 1⁄43 ratio). There are several notable meta EA animal orgs doing work in this space (e.g. Animal Charity Evaluators, EA Animal Welfare Fund, Farmed Animal Funders, Focus Philanthropy and Animal Advocacy Careers) so wondering if Lewis is meant to represent them all? If so, I think that’s a pretty tough gig! Would be curious to hear more about what determined the relative cause area focuses of the attendees or if there’s some dataset that shows meta EA spending across various cause areas.
(Note: I’m aware there is some overlap between other attendees and animal work e.g. Joey and Charity Entrepreneurship, but it’s not their primary focus hence me not including them in my count above).
I think there aren’t really any attendees who are doing meta work for a single cause. Instead, it seems to be mostly people who are doing meta work for multiple areas.
(I also know of many people doing AI safety meta work who were not invited.)
Thanks for sharing this—I really appreciate the transparency!
A quick question on the attendees: Are there any other (primarily) animal advocacy-focused folks within the 43 attendees or is it just Lewis? I don’t know the exact breakdown of meta EA efforts across various cause areas but I would be somewhat surprised if meta animal work was below 2% of all of meta EA spending (as is implied by your 1⁄43 ratio). There are several notable meta EA animal orgs doing work in this space (e.g. Animal Charity Evaluators, EA Animal Welfare Fund, Farmed Animal Funders, Focus Philanthropy and Animal Advocacy Careers) so wondering if Lewis is meant to represent them all? If so, I think that’s a pretty tough gig! Would be curious to hear more about what determined the relative cause area focuses of the attendees or if there’s some dataset that shows meta EA spending across various cause areas.
(Note: I’m aware there is some overlap between other attendees and animal work e.g. Joey and Charity Entrepreneurship, but it’s not their primary focus hence me not including them in my count above).
I think there aren’t really any attendees who are doing meta work for a single cause. Instead, it seems to be mostly people who are doing meta work for multiple areas.
(I also know of many people doing AI safety meta work who were not invited.)
Yeah I interpreted the scope of the forum as ‘meta-EA’/meta-meta rather than meta-[specific causes].