Hello,
my name is Evan Gaensbauer. Some of you using this forum may already know me from Facebook, or the 2014 Effective Altruism Summit. I couldn’t find an introductions thread, so I’m posting my introduction here. About me:
*I live in Vancouver, Canada, where I sometimes organize rationality, and effective altruism, meetups.
I’m a member of 80,000 Hours just beginning my career, and I expect I will end up earning to give. I know there are a lot of other options, but I can’t identify a special set of skills that would place me among the top performers for another category, and I don’t intend to become a researcher by going through graduate school within at least the next couple of years. However, I’m a generally competent student who could be trained in some career which can earn me enough money to donate a large portion of my income! If you know of another career you believe I should consider pursuing, please let me know!
I’m an alumnus of the July 2013 CFAR workshop.
As a member of 80,000 Hours, I’ve pledged to donate at least 10% of my lifetime pre-tax income to the most effective charity I can identify to the best of my ability. Personally, my goal is to aim for 30% of my lifetime income. Ideally, I would like to donate more, but as of writing this, my future earnings seem to uncertain for me to feel comfortable committing to a higher percentage.
As a direct result of effective altruism, I’ve previously $20 to the Schistoscomiasis Control Initiative, $15 to the Against Malaria Foundation, $50 to the CFAR, and $1000 in unrestricted donations to Givewell.
I like the landing page of http://effectivealtruism.org/ as a good introduction to EA. I think that either the content there should be mirrored as a post here in the EA forum, or more hooks/links to the EA forum should be added to that page.
Fantastic work! The site looks very nice.
Hello, my name is Evan Gaensbauer. Some of you using this forum may already know me from Facebook, or the 2014 Effective Altruism Summit. I couldn’t find an introductions thread, so I’m posting my introduction here. About me:
*I live in Vancouver, Canada, where I sometimes organize rationality, and effective altruism, meetups.
I’m a member of 80,000 Hours just beginning my career, and I expect I will end up earning to give. I know there are a lot of other options, but I can’t identify a special set of skills that would place me among the top performers for another category, and I don’t intend to become a researcher by going through graduate school within at least the next couple of years. However, I’m a generally competent student who could be trained in some career which can earn me enough money to donate a large portion of my income! If you know of another career you believe I should consider pursuing, please let me know!
I’m an alumnus of the July 2013 CFAR workshop.
As a member of 80,000 Hours, I’ve pledged to donate at least 10% of my lifetime pre-tax income to the most effective charity I can identify to the best of my ability. Personally, my goal is to aim for 30% of my lifetime income. Ideally, I would like to donate more, but as of writing this, my future earnings seem to uncertain for me to feel comfortable committing to a higher percentage.
As a direct result of effective altruism, I’ve previously $20 to the Schistoscomiasis Control Initiative, $15 to the Against Malaria Foundation, $50 to the CFAR, and $1000 in unrestricted donations to Givewell.
I’d add to that and say I think an introductions thread would be awesome.
Thanks for making this Ryan, I love it already!
Ryan, thanks, this looks great!
Which other EA websites are connected to this one so far? Which will be in the future?
Thanks Ryan, great website. I particularly appreciate the high quality content you’ve gathered to get it started!
Thanks Ryan! this looks fantastic.
Well done, Ryan!
I like the landing page of http://effectivealtruism.org/ as a good introduction to EA. I think that either the content there should be mirrored as a post here in the EA forum, or more hooks/links to the EA forum should be added to that page.