My understanding is that this has indeed been an unfortunate vacuum but as of a few months ago plans are now underway to fix this. So I can say that at least some “people who might be able to fund this or otherwise make it happen” are working on it, though I’m not part of these plans, I don’t have much detail, and I won’t claim that the plans will actually work (or that they won’t work—I don’t know).
I do think if anyone else decides to work on this it would be great if they would coordinate. I think it would be bad for us to have multiple non-coordinating media strategies targeted at “effective altruism” specifically.
I’m working on an EA consultancy startup (still in planning phases) but with my experience running a large scale operation, I could fold this kind of talent into the consultancy portion and then farm that out. Part of my job is media training and perhaps that is something that EA lacks? I need to research this more but I tend to get the feeling that EAs disregard politics when it’s not convenient or don’t engage as much as they could. Messaging is politics as it’s basest level, and I’ll probably write a forums post on this later- it’s about building rapport and speaking clearly what you are doing. Comment on this with your thoughts as to what you would want with a PR team or media training so I can make some red teaming stuff about it.
I have not. If you could connect the two of us, I would appreciate it. I’ll message you this week when I get a chance to talk shop and I hope it will be a productive discussion.
My understanding is that this has indeed been an unfortunate vacuum but as of a few months ago plans are now underway to fix this. So I can say that at least some “people who might be able to fund this or otherwise make it happen” are working on it, though I’m not part of these plans, I don’t have much detail, and I won’t claim that the plans will actually work (or that they won’t work—I don’t know).
I do think if anyone else decides to work on this it would be great if they would coordinate. I think it would be bad for us to have multiple non-coordinating media strategies targeted at “effective altruism” specifically.
I’m working on an EA consultancy startup (still in planning phases) but with my experience running a large scale operation, I could fold this kind of talent into the consultancy portion and then farm that out. Part of my job is media training and perhaps that is something that EA lacks? I need to research this more but I tend to get the feeling that EAs disregard politics when it’s not convenient or don’t engage as much as they could. Messaging is politics as it’s basest level, and I’ll probably write a forums post on this later- it’s about building rapport and speaking clearly what you are doing. Comment on this with your thoughts as to what you would want with a PR team or media training so I can make some red teaming stuff about it.
Have you spoken to Jona Glade about it? He’s also working on setting up a consultancy. I’m also happy to chat about this.
I have not. If you could connect the two of us, I would appreciate it. I’ll message you this week when I get a chance to talk shop and I hope it will be a productive discussion.
Yeah I’d be interested in hearing more about that
I wrote a bit about this here: Public Relations: Message & Rapport
I’ll probably have a bit more about this as I think about what specific messaging “how to” would be useful for EAs.