Just like you wouldn’t schedule a meeting to ask someone what are the names of the U.S states (because you can check wikipedia), I’m against scheduling meetings to ask something you can check in the EA Forum (or lesswrong).
For example, if you’re curious what’s new in global health and wellbeing, check the “global health and wellbeing” tag, and sort by “new”.
(Maybe after checking the tag you’ll still want a meeting for some reason, but I’d at least check the tag first).
Examples:
I wouldn’t do: Ask an org if they’re hiring without checking the 80k job board (and/or the org’s website, and/or the org’s tag).
Seems ok: Reaching out to someone from an org, saying “I see you’re hiring, I’m considering studying for 3 months and then applying, do you think it would be better for me to apply now and if I don’t pass then study and apply again in 3 months?”
Seems great: Asking this in Swapcard, maybe they can just reply in 5 seconds with “yeah sure apply, no problem to repeat after 3 months”? Or maybe they’ll say it’s better to meet.
Just like you wouldn’t schedule a meeting to ask someone what are the names of the U.S states (because you can check wikipedia), I’m against scheduling meetings to ask something you can check in the EA Forum (or lesswrong).
For example, if you’re curious what’s new in global health and wellbeing, check the “global health and wellbeing” tag, and sort by “new”.
(Maybe after checking the tag you’ll still want a meeting for some reason, but I’d at least check the tag first).
Examples:
I wouldn’t do: Ask an org if they’re hiring without checking the 80k job board (and/or the org’s website, and/or the org’s tag).
Seems ok: Reaching out to someone from an org, saying “I see you’re hiring, I’m considering studying for 3 months and then applying, do you think it would be better for me to apply now and if I don’t pass then study and apply again in 3 months?”
Seems great: Asking this in Swapcard, maybe they can just reply in 5 seconds with “yeah sure apply, no problem to repeat after 3 months”? Or maybe they’ll say it’s better to meet.