A while ago -- 2017, maybe? -- I remember attending EA Global in San Francisco, where Will MacAskill gave as either the keynote or the closing talk an address on the theme “Keep EA Weird”. Do people still support this ideal? I notice that GoodVentures recently stopped funding some “weirder” cause areas, for instance.
It’s at least possible to me that as EA has gotten bigger, some of the “weird” stuff has been pushed to the margins more and that’s correct, but I’m not sure I’ve seen a detailed discussion of this, at least when it comes to cause areas rather than debates about polyamory and the like.
A while ago I remember seeing some discussion of EA analysis of Ukraine relief following the Russian invasion—perhaps some EAs from Poland were involved? Did this ever get comprehensively written up anywhere?
A while ago -- 2017, maybe? -- I remember attending EA Global in San Francisco, where Will MacAskill gave as either the keynote or the closing talk an address on the theme “Keep EA Weird”. Do people still support this ideal? I notice that GoodVentures recently stopped funding some “weirder” cause areas, for instance.
It’s at least possible to me that as EA has gotten bigger, some of the “weird” stuff has been pushed to the margins more and that’s correct, but I’m not sure I’ve seen a detailed discussion of this, at least when it comes to cause areas rather than debates about polyamory and the like.
A while ago I remember seeing some discussion of EA analysis of Ukraine relief following the Russian invasion—perhaps some EAs from Poland were involved? Did this ever get comprehensively written up anywhere?
Here was one project: https://efektywnyaltruizm.org/blog/help-for-ukrainians/. I found that link on https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gacpE79RKke2foG9K/rough-attempt-to-profile-charities-which-support-ukrainian.