Suggestion: Add an “Effective Jobs” subforum—where people can discuss the impact of working at different orgs.
For example, I considered working at Zzapp Malaria, it would be nice if others could comment on this idea in some way that would be lower friction than writing a detailed post.
Or maybe someone’s considering working at Tesla, or Solar Edge.
I think there are lots of advantages to having the discussion public and inviting for anyone to ask (or answer), including the org itself, as opposed to having every person do their own research alone. It’s especially bad when people new-to-EA ask where they can work to help and all we have to say is “here are materials on how to evaluate impact” but “we have almost no suggestions for concrete jobs in your area”.
I have lots of thoughts on why this could be great (like these), but I’ll leave it here for now.
+1 to the Effective Giving subforum!
Suggestion: Add an “Effective Jobs” subforum—where people can discuss the impact of working at different orgs.
For example, I considered working at Zzapp Malaria, it would be nice if others could comment on this idea in some way that would be lower friction than writing a detailed post.
Or maybe someone’s considering working at Tesla, or Solar Edge.
I think there are lots of advantages to having the discussion public and inviting for anyone to ask (or answer), including the org itself, as opposed to having every person do their own research alone. It’s especially bad when people new-to-EA ask where they can work to help and all we have to say is “here are materials on how to evaluate impact” but “we have almost no suggestions for concrete jobs in your area”.
I have lots of thoughts on why this could be great (like these), but I’ll leave it here for now.
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