Some ideas: 1. What are the main big mistakes that EAs are making? Maybe have a few people give 30-minute talks or something. 2. A summary of the funding ecosystem and key strategic considerations around EA. Who are the most powerful actors, how competent are they, what are our main bottlenecks at the moment? 3. I’d like frank discussions about how to grow funding in the EA ecosystem, outside of the current donors. I think this is pretty key. 4. It would be neat to have a debate or similar on AI policy legislation. We’re facing a lot of resistance here, and some of it is uncertain. 5. Is there any decent 5-10 year plan of what EA itself should be? Right now most of the funding ultimately comes from OP, and there’s very little non-OP community funding or power. Are there ideas/plans to change this?
I generally think that EA Globals have had far too little disagreeable content. It feels like they’ve been very focused on making things seem positive for new people, instead of focusing more on candid and more raw disagreements and improvement ideas.
A critical interview format would be interesting. E.g. some highly engaged intra-EA critic like Oliver Habryka, Nuno Sempere or titotal interviewing some key player at OP or CEA with the advance understanding that it might be uncomfortable and at least somewhat adversarial (though maybe with some kind of structure agreed on in advance so no-one comes away feeling like they were unfairly caught off guard).
Some ideas:
1. What are the main big mistakes that EAs are making? Maybe have a few people give 30-minute talks or something.
2. A summary of the funding ecosystem and key strategic considerations around EA. Who are the most powerful actors, how competent are they, what are our main bottlenecks at the moment?
3. I’d like frank discussions about how to grow funding in the EA ecosystem, outside of the current donors. I think this is pretty key.
4. It would be neat to have a debate or similar on AI policy legislation. We’re facing a lot of resistance here, and some of it is uncertain.
5. Is there any decent 5-10 year plan of what EA itself should be? Right now most of the funding ultimately comes from OP, and there’s very little non-OP community funding or power. Are there ideas/plans to change this?
I generally think that EA Globals have had far too little disagreeable content. It feels like they’ve been very focused on making things seem positive for new people, instead of focusing more on candid and more raw disagreements and improvement ideas.
A critical interview format would be interesting. E.g. some highly engaged intra-EA critic like Oliver Habryka, Nuno Sempere or titotal interviewing some key player at OP or CEA with the advance understanding that it might be uncomfortable and at least somewhat adversarial (though maybe with some kind of structure agreed on in advance so no-one comes away feeling like they were unfairly caught off guard).