Great question! I hope to find time to engage substantively later, but for now I just wanted to flag that I’m considering to spend significant time from September or October putting together some kind of “EA curriculum”, and that I’d be happy to talk to anyone interested in similar ideas. Send me a PM if you want to jump on a call in the next couple of weeks.
I’m curious how big you are thinking this “EA curriculum” might be. Are you thinking of something similar to an EA Uni group fellowship (usually ~4 hours/ week for ~ 8 weeks) or are you thinking of something much larger?
I was mostly thinking of a curriculum that would eventually be much larger (though could be modular, and certainly would have a smaller MVP as first step to gauge viability of the larger curriculum).
But my views on this aren’t firm, and in general one of the first things I’ll do is to determine various fundamental properties I don’t feel certain about yet. Other than length these are e.g. target audience and intended outcomes (e.g. attracting new people to EA, “onboarding” new EAs, bringing moderately experienced EA to the same level, or allowing even quite involved EAs to learn something new by increasing the amount of content that publicly accessible as opposed to in some people’s minds or nonpublic docs), scope (e.g. only longtermism?), and focus on content/knowledge vs. skills/methods.
And seems like there is some overlap with EA Uni group fellowships so I would be happy to talk to you about those if you want; although maybe better to talk to the community builders more involved in syllabus writing. ( this Intro Fellowship I’m running at Brown EA )
Great question! I hope to find time to engage substantively later, but for now I just wanted to flag that I’m considering to spend significant time from September or October putting together some kind of “EA curriculum”, and that I’d be happy to talk to anyone interested in similar ideas. Send me a PM if you want to jump on a call in the next couple of weeks.
Hi Max,
I’m curious how big you are thinking this “EA curriculum” might be. Are you thinking of something similar to an EA Uni group fellowship (usually ~4 hours/ week for ~ 8 weeks) or are you thinking of something much larger?
I was mostly thinking of a curriculum that would eventually be much larger (though could be modular, and certainly would have a smaller MVP as first step to gauge viability of the larger curriculum).
But my views on this aren’t firm, and in general one of the first things I’ll do is to determine various fundamental properties I don’t feel certain about yet. Other than length these are e.g. target audience and intended outcomes (e.g. attracting new people to EA, “onboarding” new EAs, bringing moderately experienced EA to the same level, or allowing even quite involved EAs to learn something new by increasing the amount of content that publicly accessible as opposed to in some people’s minds or nonpublic docs), scope (e.g. only longtermism?), and focus on content/knowledge vs. skills/methods.
Sounds very exciting!
And seems like there is some overlap with EA Uni group fellowships so I would be happy to talk to you about those if you want; although maybe better to talk to the community builders more involved in syllabus writing. ( this Intro Fellowship I’m running at Brown EA )