Great questions as always. I’m going to hand a couple of these over to Kerry Vaughan, but I’ll take a shot at answering most of them. Again, I’m afraid my answers are too long to fit into a single comment, so I’ll answer questions one-by-one.
It’s great that so many people are working on giving lots of people a positive initial impression of EA. But my sense is there’s a pretty big gap between “initial impression of EA” and “EA is a big part of my life” that isn’t being filled very well right now. Are there any plans to work on these later stages of the EA pipeline?
I agree that there is a need here. On p2 here I outline how our activities can be thought of as fitting into this pipeline. Some of them are earlier in this pipeline (making it easier for people to get up to speed on the ket ideas in EA at effectivealtruism.org), while others are later (the EA Fellows Programme). The main activities targeting the later stages of this pipeline are:
EA Global, which is designed to allow lots of people to meet face-to-face to make it easy for people to dive into the community.
EA Fellows Programme, which is intended to provide an opportunity for a handful of high-potential people who are interested in EA to make it a much bigger part of their life.
And finally EA Ventures which we hope will providing funding for more people to work full-time on EA projects.
In my experience becoming very engaged in EA often comes about as a result of a large amount of one-on-one interaction with people in the community, so we hope to build some tools into EffectiveAltruism.org to make this easier. I think that local chapters are likely to be a key part of how people become more involved, and I’m always interested to hear ways in which we might be able to help local chapters grow, so if you do have ideas let me know. I hear that you’re doing great work in this area already, so perhaps you have some suggestions?
Ultimately I think there is so much work to be done in the area you’ve mentioned that I would hope that there are people dedicated specifically to this aim in the future, and this is something that we are hoping to develop in CEA in time.
Have you written up anything about the 1:1 tools for EA.org anywhere?
WRT chapter suggestions, I’m only just figuring things out myself and I’m afraid I don’t have any magic bullets! I’ll let you know if I come up with any though :)
Have you written up anything about the 1:1 tools for EA.org anywhere?
Seconded. Also, what are the current ways in which proto-EAs can get one-on-one interaction, and what are the things that we can leverage to increase this?
Hi Ben,
Great questions as always. I’m going to hand a couple of these over to Kerry Vaughan, but I’ll take a shot at answering most of them. Again, I’m afraid my answers are too long to fit into a single comment, so I’ll answer questions one-by-one.
I agree that there is a need here. On p2 here I outline how our activities can be thought of as fitting into this pipeline. Some of them are earlier in this pipeline (making it easier for people to get up to speed on the ket ideas in EA at effectivealtruism.org), while others are later (the EA Fellows Programme). The main activities targeting the later stages of this pipeline are:
EA Global, which is designed to allow lots of people to meet face-to-face to make it easy for people to dive into the community.
EA Fellows Programme, which is intended to provide an opportunity for a handful of high-potential people who are interested in EA to make it a much bigger part of their life.
And finally EA Ventures which we hope will providing funding for more people to work full-time on EA projects.
In my experience becoming very engaged in EA often comes about as a result of a large amount of one-on-one interaction with people in the community, so we hope to build some tools into EffectiveAltruism.org to make this easier. I think that local chapters are likely to be a key part of how people become more involved, and I’m always interested to hear ways in which we might be able to help local chapters grow, so if you do have ideas let me know. I hear that you’re doing great work in this area already, so perhaps you have some suggestions?
Ultimately I think there is so much work to be done in the area you’ve mentioned that I would hope that there are people dedicated specifically to this aim in the future, and this is something that we are hoping to develop in CEA in time.
Thanks so much for answering in such detail!
Have you written up anything about the 1:1 tools for EA.org anywhere?
WRT chapter suggestions, I’m only just figuring things out myself and I’m afraid I don’t have any magic bullets! I’ll let you know if I come up with any though :)
Seconded. Also, what are the current ways in which proto-EAs can get one-on-one interaction, and what are the things that we can leverage to increase this?