A less extreme version of Get In The Van is a heuristic I’ve often used for events, which is “stay until the very end”. When I first got interested in EA and related things (LessWrong, AGI x-risk), I made a point of always staying to the very end of events to maximise what I got out of them. A formative experience in this regard was travelling across the country to go to a talk given by Eliezer Yudkowsky in Oxford in 2011 on “Friendly AI” (the term used then). There was a drinks reception after. Then some of us went to the pub. Then to a late night cafe. Then to the FHI offices, where Nick Bostrom was working late as he often does. I stayed out until about 2am from a talk that started at 6 or 7pm. Met lots of interesting people that I’d only followed / read their writing online previously (not least Eliezer).
Similarly with EA Globals—it’s often good to hang out as long as you can after hours to maximise the amount of interesting discussion you have, and connections you make.
A less extreme version of Get In The Van is a heuristic I’ve often used for events, which is “stay until the very end”. When I first got interested in EA and related things (LessWrong, AGI x-risk), I made a point of always staying to the very end of events to maximise what I got out of them. A formative experience in this regard was travelling across the country to go to a talk given by Eliezer Yudkowsky in Oxford in 2011 on “Friendly AI” (the term used then). There was a drinks reception after. Then some of us went to the pub. Then to a late night cafe. Then to the FHI offices, where Nick Bostrom was working late as he often does. I stayed out until about 2am from a talk that started at 6 or 7pm. Met lots of interesting people that I’d only followed / read their writing online previously (not least Eliezer).
Similarly with EA Globals—it’s often good to hang out as long as you can after hours to maximise the amount of interesting discussion you have, and connections you make.