To be honest, in situations like this my normal course of action is to not suggest anything and just deal with my feelings.
To me, community health is an unusual function. Although I fail to appreciate why it should be there, I am also convinced that there are good reasons. This thinking applies more generally: since I have zero experience organizing in-person networking events, I have very little chance of coming up with sensible suggestions of improvement unless I spend substantial time in this field.
But I could spend much less time to get over my own feeling of anxiety and insecurity. I also get better at this by repeated practices, so I can deal with future episodes more easily.
How about help the event organizers do better job, you might ask? But I’d rather spend serious time in AI safety, which ranks higher on the pressing issues list than building the EA community.
So sorry Jonathan I don’t have anything valuable to add re your prompt of concrete improvement suggestions. Hope I have explained this clearly in my reasoning above. I think the organizers have done a great job, and given how responsive they’re in this thread, I’m also confident that their best event will always be the next one :)
What concrete improvements would you suggest that would help make you safer at events like these?
To be honest, in situations like this my normal course of action is to not suggest anything and just deal with my feelings.
To me, community health is an unusual function. Although I fail to appreciate why it should be there, I am also convinced that there are good reasons. This thinking applies more generally: since I have zero experience organizing in-person networking events, I have very little chance of coming up with sensible suggestions of improvement unless I spend substantial time in this field.
But I could spend much less time to get over my own feeling of anxiety and insecurity. I also get better at this by repeated practices, so I can deal with future episodes more easily.
How about help the event organizers do better job, you might ask? But I’d rather spend serious time in AI safety, which ranks higher on the pressing issues list than building the EA community.
So sorry Jonathan I don’t have anything valuable to add re your prompt of concrete improvement suggestions. Hope I have explained this clearly in my reasoning above. I think the organizers have done a great job, and given how responsive they’re in this thread, I’m also confident that their best event will always be the next one :)