Any formal conflict of interest I ever had in effective altruism I shed myself of almost five years ago. I’ve been a local and online group organizer in EA for a decade, so I’ve got lots of personal friends who work at or with support from EA-affilated organizations. Those might be called more informal conflicts of interest, though I don’t know how much they might count as conflicts of interest at all.
I haven’t had any greater social conflicts of interest, like being in a romantic relationship with anyone else in EA, for that long as well.
I’ve never signed a non-disclosure agreement for any EA-affiliated organization I might have had a role at or contracted with for any period of time. Most of what I’m referring to here is nothing that should worry anyone who is aware of the specific details of my personal history in effective altruism. My having dated someone for a few months who wasn’t a public figure or a staffer at any EA-affiliated organization, or me having been a board member in name only for a few months to help get off the ground a budding EA organization that has now been defunct for years anyway, are of almost no relevance or significance to anything happening in EA in 2023.
In 2018, I was a recipient of an Effective Altruism Grant, one of the kinds of alternative funding programs administered by the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), like the current Effective Altruism Funds or the Community Building Grants program, though the EA Grants program was discontinued a few years ago.
I was also contracted for a couple months in 2018 with the organization then known as the Effective Altruism Foundation, as a part-time researcher for one of the EA Foundation’s projects, the Foundational Research Institute (FRI), which has for a few years now been succeeded by a newer effort launched by many of the same effective altruists who operated FRI, called the Center for Long-Term Risk (CLTR).
Most of what I intend to focus on posting about on this forum in the coming months won’t be at all about CLTR as it exists today or its background, though there will be some. Much of what I intend to write will technically entail referencing some of the CEA’s various activities, past and present, though that’s almost impossible to avoid when trying to address the dynamics of the effective altruism community as a whole anyway. Most of what I intend to write that will touch upon the CEA will have nothing to do with my past conflict of interest of having been a grant recipient in 2018.
Much of the above is technically me doing due diligence, though that’s not my reason for writing this post.
I’m writing this post because everyone else should understand that I indeed have zero conflicts of interest, that I’ve never signed a non-disclosure agreement, and that for years and still into the present, I’ve had no active desire to work up to netting a job or career within most facets of EA.
(Note, Jan. 17: Some of that could change but I don’t expect any of it to change for at least the next year.)
Any formal conflict of interest I ever had in effective altruism I shed myself of almost five years ago. I’ve been a local and online group organizer in EA for a decade, so I’ve got lots of personal friends who work at or with support from EA-affilated organizations. Those might be called more informal conflicts of interest, though I don’t know how much they might count as conflicts of interest at all.
I haven’t had any greater social conflicts of interest, like being in a romantic relationship with anyone else in EA, for that long as well.
I’ve never signed a non-disclosure agreement for any EA-affiliated organization I might have had a role at or contracted with for any period of time. Most of what I’m referring to here is nothing that should worry anyone who is aware of the specific details of my personal history in effective altruism. My having dated someone for a few months who wasn’t a public figure or a staffer at any EA-affiliated organization, or me having been a board member in name only for a few months to help get off the ground a budding EA organization that has now been defunct for years anyway, are of almost no relevance or significance to anything happening in EA in 2023.
In 2018, I was a recipient of an Effective Altruism Grant, one of the kinds of alternative funding programs administered by the Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA), like the current Effective Altruism Funds or the Community Building Grants program, though the EA Grants program was discontinued a few years ago.
I was also contracted for a couple months in 2018 with the organization then known as the Effective Altruism Foundation, as a part-time researcher for one of the EA Foundation’s projects, the Foundational Research Institute (FRI), which has for a few years now been succeeded by a newer effort launched by many of the same effective altruists who operated FRI, called the Center for Long-Term Risk (CLTR).
Most of what I intend to focus on posting about on this forum in the coming months won’t be at all about CLTR as it exists today or its background, though there will be some. Much of what I intend to write will technically entail referencing some of the CEA’s various activities, past and present, though that’s almost impossible to avoid when trying to address the dynamics of the effective altruism community as a whole anyway. Most of what I intend to write that will touch upon the CEA will have nothing to do with my past conflict of interest of having been a grant recipient in 2018.
Much of the above is technically me doing due diligence, though that’s not my reason for writing this post.
I’m writing this post because everyone else should understand that I indeed have zero conflicts of interest, that I’ve never signed a non-disclosure agreement, and that for years and still into the present, I’ve had no active desire to work up to netting a job or career within most facets of EA. (Note, Jan. 17: Some of that could change but I don’t expect any of it to change for at least the next year.)