first thing: thank you a lot for your feedback, would love to bounce Ideas around with you! Just mail me at mail@benjamineidam.com please :)
“it seems like this is a project you already wanted to start, and has had an “EA” sticker added to it”
Actually, I wanted to start something EA way before I even had a thought about a project like this. But I can get it. Right now I choose to start with something that I have tested a lot and that works great in the “real world” with ~10%-20% EA in it. But I learned in my Intro-Fellowship, that there are a lot of intersections, plus my plan is to teach the content but constantly watch it through the perspective of EA. In the same way, the botanist looks at a forest in this example:
When a botanist looks at a forest they may focus on the ecosystem, an environmentalist sees the impact of climate change, a forestry engineer the state of the tree growth, a business person the value of the land. None are wrong, but neither are any of them able to describe the full scope of the forest. Sharing knowledge, or learning the basics of the other disciplines, would lead to a more well-rounded understanding that would allow for better initial decisions about managing the forest.
So in short: I think the content itself is relatively optimal between enabling students optimally for fulfilling their “Digikai” while the “meta-perspective” of EA frames all of it perfectly.
But this is just my point of view as I teach it, and it works “wonders” for my students right now. Like literally changing their view of the world.
I don’t know if this will work on scale.
Again: Only one way to find out :)
“My emotional response is that having a curriculum 80% done without consulting with the broader EA field feels like going against the EA epistemic approach.”
I 100% agree. That is why I share it now, that I’m more or less can see clearly a path how it could work. I think now it is a lot of fine-tuning, but i don’t know how this will look like. I also don’t want just chain hours of talking and chatting to each other without doing, but I really want to get more EAs involved and feedbacking this before really going “online”.
I am really open to Ideas and just kick ~80% out of the sea if necessary. I just know technology and “love” the mental model of EA and have the “talent” to be an exciting teacher. So I want to use that.
But if it changes on the way, I’m ok with it. It really depends on the arguments.
Hi Dusan,
first thing: thank you a lot for your feedback, would love to bounce Ideas around with you! Just mail me at mail@benjamineidam.com please :)
“it seems like this is a project you already wanted to start, and has had an “EA” sticker added to it”
Actually, I wanted to start something EA way before I even had a thought about a project like this. But I can get it. Right now I choose to start with something that I have tested a lot and that works great in the “real world” with ~10%-20% EA in it. But I learned in my Intro-Fellowship, that there are a lot of intersections, plus my plan is to teach the content but constantly watch it through the perspective of EA. In the same way, the botanist looks at a forest in this example:
So in short: I think the content itself is relatively optimal between enabling students optimally for fulfilling their “Digikai” while the “meta-perspective” of EA frames all of it perfectly.
But this is just my point of view as I teach it, and it works “wonders” for my students right now. Like literally changing their view of the world.
I don’t know if this will work on scale.
Again: Only one way to find out :)
“My emotional response is that having a curriculum 80% done without consulting with the broader EA field feels like going against the EA epistemic approach.”
I 100% agree. That is why I share it now, that I’m more or less can see clearly a path how it could work. I think now it is a lot of fine-tuning, but i don’t know how this will look like. I also don’t want just chain hours of talking and chatting to each other without doing, but I really want to get more EAs involved and feedbacking this before really going “online”.
I am really open to Ideas and just kick ~80% out of the sea if necessary. I just know technology and “love” the mental model of EA and have the “talent” to be an exciting teacher. So I want to use that.
But if it changes on the way, I’m ok with it. It really depends on the arguments.
Cheers
Ben