This is correct about HLS. We think that OFTW outreach has generally been a good way to build name recognition for EA—if you ask people what we do, they know about OFTW because it’s a big, very visible effort. I think there’s some risk that they think we’re limited to poverty work (a general EA problem), but I don’t think this is an unavoidable consequence of our partnership with OFTW—it’s because our other programming has so far been less visible.
It’s also a good way for us to stratify our programming (both for our members and for involving non-members) so that we have meaningful interaction with both EA-sympathetic “normal” (i.e., not EA career things) people and career-minded EAs.
This is correct about HLS. We think that OFTW outreach has generally been a good way to build name recognition for EA—if you ask people what we do, they know about OFTW because it’s a big, very visible effort. I think there’s some risk that they think we’re limited to poverty work (a general EA problem), but I don’t think this is an unavoidable consequence of our partnership with OFTW—it’s because our other programming has so far been less visible.
It’s also a good way for us to stratify our programming (both for our members and for involving non-members) so that we have meaningful interaction with both EA-sympathetic “normal” (i.e., not EA career things) people and career-minded EAs.