Thanks for this! I think it’s good for people to suggest new pitches in general. And this one would certainly allow me to give a much cleaner pitch to non-EA friends than rambling about a handful of premises and what they lead to and why (I should work on my pitching in general!). I think I’ll try this.
I think I would personally have found this pitch slightly less convincing than current EA pitches though. But one problem is that I and almost everyone reading this were selected for liking the standard pitch (though to be fair whatever selection mechanism EA currently has, it seems to be pretty good at attracting smart people and might be worth preserving). Would be interesting to see some experimentation, perhaps some EA group could try this?
Thanks for the feedback! Yep, it’s pretty hard to judge this kind of thing given survivorship bias. I expect this kind of pitch would have worked best on me, though I got into EA long enough ago that I was most grabbed by global health pitches. Which maybe got past my weirdness filter in a way that this one didn’t.
I’d love to see what happens if someone tries an intro fellowship based around reading the Most Important Century series!
Thanks for this! I think it’s good for people to suggest new pitches in general. And this one would certainly allow me to give a much cleaner pitch to non-EA friends than rambling about a handful of premises and what they lead to and why (I should work on my pitching in general!). I think I’ll try this.
I think I would personally have found this pitch slightly less convincing than current EA pitches though. But one problem is that I and almost everyone reading this were selected for liking the standard pitch (though to be fair whatever selection mechanism EA currently has, it seems to be pretty good at attracting smart people and might be worth preserving). Would be interesting to see some experimentation, perhaps some EA group could try this?
Thanks for the feedback! Yep, it’s pretty hard to judge this kind of thing given survivorship bias. I expect this kind of pitch would have worked best on me, though I got into EA long enough ago that I was most grabbed by global health pitches. Which maybe got past my weirdness filter in a way that this one didn’t.
I’d love to see what happens if someone tries an intro fellowship based around reading the Most Important Century series!
Such an intro fellowship sounds good! I had an idea a while back about a Most Important Century seminar series with incentives for important people to attend.