Are you interested in projects that do outreach and community building to mid-career professionals, especially in tech, where some of the projects help these professionals hear about and/or transition into longtermism roles?
(If some of these parts sound like a good fit and some don’t—could you tell me which are which? If any of this sounds like a good fit then I’ll share some projects I’m working on or considering working on)
The answer is yes, I can think of some projects in this general area that sound good to me. I’d encourage you to email me or sign up to talk to me about your ideas and we can go from there. As is always the case, a lot rides on further specifics about the project — i.e. just the bare fact that something is focused on mid-career professionals in tech doesn’t give me a lot of info about whether it’s something we’d want to fund or not.
Running local groups that publicly transparently look for impactful tech companies together
This is good because:
If a tech person goes to a local EA group and asks how to have impact without working remotely, the group will have some answer beyond “read these 100 articles” and “we have lots of ways to analyze but no answers” (I think this is a negative first experience for senior tech people approaching EA groups)
It will hopefully spread the word to the tech community about “yeah, some companies are more impactful than others, and it’s possible to do the analysis”
Longer pitch here (linkpost to the EA tech FB group)
Hiring
EA hiring agency
Maybe specifically for tech, maybe for other important-and-hard-to-hire jobs (Open Phil researchers?)
Supporting EA orgs hiring: I think there are many low hanging fruit problems to solve with EA hiring (1, 2, and many more), but this is unrelated to community building.
Does improving 80k’s job board’s conversation count as “outreach”, since they have so much traffic?
Create a conversation in EA longtermism about “very senior people: working directly is probably more impactful than donating”
I can send my draft privately.
EAG for tech? (I’m not sold on this yet, but maybe)
Also ,here’s a thread of EA tech community building ideas, unrelated to outreach or longtermism (join the group here).
P.S
If you’d fund a CFAR or similar workshop in Israel, we have many people from EA+Lesswrong Israel who’d be interested, including me. (I estimate this would be less than $10k)
I’ll schedule with you anyway, we can use this as an agenda, but I encourage you to brutally filter out the ideas that seem bad, or at least to voice your actual opinion. Helping me prioritize is welcome, and most of these projects are getting very little attention from me.
I appreciate the AMA style post!
Are you interested in projects that do outreach and community building to mid-career professionals, especially in tech, where some of the projects help these professionals hear about and/or transition into longtermism roles?
(If some of these parts sound like a good fit and some don’t—could you tell me which are which? If any of this sounds like a good fit then I’ll share some projects I’m working on or considering working on)
The answer is yes, I can think of some projects in this general area that sound good to me. I’d encourage you to email me or sign up to talk to me about your ideas and we can go from there. As is always the case, a lot rides on further specifics about the project — i.e. just the bare fact that something is focused on mid-career professionals in tech doesn’t give me a lot of info about whether it’s something we’d want to fund or not.
Thanks, I only meant to ask if focusing on mid-career tech is already a deal breaker for things you’d be interested in, and I understand that isn’t.
Here are some ideas:
EA tech newsletter
Aim to keep people somewhat engaged in EA and hear about opportunities that fit them when these people are looking for work.
Draft
Running local groups that publicly transparently look for impactful tech companies together
This is good because:
If a tech person goes to a local EA group and asks how to have impact without working remotely, the group will have some answer beyond “read these 100 articles” and “we have lots of ways to analyze but no answers” (I think this is a negative first experience for senior tech people approaching EA groups)
It will hopefully spread the word to the tech community about “yeah, some companies are more impactful than others, and it’s possible to do the analysis”
Longer pitch here (linkpost to the EA tech FB group)
Hiring
EA hiring agency
Maybe specifically for tech, maybe for other important-and-hard-to-hire jobs (Open Phil researchers?)
Supporting EA orgs hiring: I think there are many low hanging fruit problems to solve with EA hiring (1, 2, and many more), but this is unrelated to community building.
Does improving 80k’s job board’s conversation count as “outreach”, since they have so much traffic?
Create a conversation in EA longtermism about “very senior people: working directly is probably more impactful than donating”
I can send my draft privately.
EAG for tech? (I’m not sold on this yet, but maybe)
Also ,here’s a thread of EA tech community building ideas, unrelated to outreach or longtermism (join the group here).
P.S
If you’d fund a CFAR or similar workshop in Israel, we have many people from EA+Lesswrong Israel who’d be interested, including me. (I estimate this would be less than $10k)
I’ll schedule with you anyway, we can use this as an agenda, but I encourage you to brutally filter out the ideas that seem bad, or at least to voice your actual opinion. Helping me prioritize is welcome, and most of these projects are getting very little attention from me.
Cool, looking forward to talking about these.