The answer is yes, I can think of some projects in this general area that sound good to me. Iâd 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 â i.e. just the bare fact that something is focused on mid-career professionals in tech doesnât give me a lot of info about whether itâs something weâd want to fund or not.
Thanks, I only meant to ask if focusing on mid-career tech is already a deal breaker for things youâd be interested in, and I understand that isnât.
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.
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 âread these 100 articlesâ and âwe have lots of ways to analyze but no answersâ (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 âyeah, some companies are more impactful than others, and itâs possible to do the analysisâ
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 80kâs job boardâs conversation count as âoutreachâ, since they have so much traffic?
Create a conversation in EA longtermism about âvery senior people: working directly is probably more impactful than donatingâ
I can send my draft privately.
EAG for tech? (Iâm not sold on this yet, but maybe)
Also ,hereâs a thread of EA tech community building ideas, unrelated to outreach or longtermism (join the group here).
P.S
If youâd fund a CFAR or similar workshop in Israel, we have many people from EA+Lesswrong Israel whoâd be interested, including me. (I estimate this would be less than $10k)
Iâll 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.
The answer is yes, I can think of some projects in this general area that sound good to me. Iâd 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 â i.e. just the bare fact that something is focused on mid-career professionals in tech doesnât give me a lot of info about whether itâs something weâd want to fund or not.
Thanks, I only meant to ask if focusing on mid-career tech is already a deal breaker for things youâd be interested in, and I understand that isnât.
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 âread these 100 articlesâ and âwe have lots of ways to analyze but no answersâ (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 âyeah, some companies are more impactful than others, and itâs possible to do the analysisâ
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 80kâs job boardâs conversation count as âoutreachâ, since they have so much traffic?
Create a conversation in EA longtermism about âvery senior people: working directly is probably more impactful than donatingâ
I can send my draft privately.
EAG for tech? (Iâm not sold on this yet, but maybe)
Also ,hereâs a thread of EA tech community building ideas, unrelated to outreach or longtermism (join the group here).
P.S
If youâd fund a CFAR or similar workshop in Israel, we have many people from EA+Lesswrong Israel whoâd be interested, including me. (I estimate this would be less than $10k)
Iâll 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.