My impression of how the EA Hotel crew dealt with media attention was something like “better than many did in the early stages (including myself in the early stages of EAF) but (due to lack of experience or training) considerably worse than most EA orgs would do these days.” There are many counterintuitive lessons to be learnt, many of which I still don’t fully understand, either.
However, since the initial media interest has abated, I think this isn’t really relevant for current grants anyway.
CEA’s semi-internal media advice contains some valuable lessons. I was going to post a write-up on the EA Forum at some point, but given that media attention has been de-emphasized as an EA priority since, I decided against pursuing that (I also have some old “EA media strategy” presentation slides but unfortunately, they’re in German). If lots of people thought this would be valuable, or if we learned that EA-Hotel-type issues occur on a regular basis, I’d consider it, though. (I also think much of my experience is only relevant to global poverty and animal welfare, not to AI or other cause areas.)
My impression of how the EA Hotel crew dealt with media attention was something like “better than many did in the early stages (including myself in the early stages of EAF) but (due to lack of experience or training) considerably worse than most EA orgs would do these days.” There are many counterintuitive lessons to be learnt, many of which I still don’t fully understand, either.
However, since the initial media interest has abated, I think this isn’t really relevant for current grants anyway.
Can you say what these lessons are? Would be good to have a write up of advice and I would like to see an EA forum post on this.
CEA’s semi-internal media advice contains some valuable lessons. I was going to post a write-up on the EA Forum at some point, but given that media attention has been de-emphasized as an EA priority since, I decided against pursuing that (I also have some old “EA media strategy” presentation slides but unfortunately, they’re in German). If lots of people thought this would be valuable, or if we learned that EA-Hotel-type issues occur on a regular basis, I’d consider it, though. (I also think much of my experience is only relevant to global poverty and animal welfare, not to AI or other cause areas.)
Personally, I’d be interested to see this writeup, and I’d definitely chip in with some of my thoughts if you posted it.