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I would place quite a bit of emphasis on epistemic tools, since valuing (and ideally exercising) reason and evidence is the primary thing which differentiates EA and unites people across different causes.

Things to be covered might include:

• Prioritization

• Building models about relevant parts of the world

• Epistemic humility (being open to changing your mind, steelmanning other people’s arguments, etc)

People to contact for these things:

• Oliver Habryka (panisnecis@gmail.com) - he runs an undergrad course at Berkeley

• Cat Lavigne (cat.m.lavigne@gmail.com) - currently developing a model-building workshop called Shift

• People at CFAR (obviously). Namely Anna (anna@appliedrationality.org)

• Owen Cotton-Barratt (owen.cotton-barratt@maths.ox.ac.uk), Nick Beckstead (nbeckstead@gmail.com), and Geoff Anders (geoffrey.anders@gmail.com) - for material on prioritization.

There’s already a coursera course, but I don’t know how good it is: https://​​www.coursera.org/​​learn/​​altruism

A discussion of moral philosophy may be important not only because morality is integral to EA in general, but because it illustrates how the movement is suitable for people with wildly different views on morality, from utilitarians/​consequentialists to deontologists to those who take a religious view.

I’d say that this video of Peter Singer is quite a good, short overview of cause prioritization.

Seems like a good project, but why rot13 the topics?

The Peter Singer Ted talk has a pretty good overview of why and how.

https://​​www.youtube.com/​​watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc

• The Moral Imperative to Cost Effectiveness (think Toby Ord’s essay that discusses HIV interventions)

• Effectiveness not overhead

• Biases

• Self-improvement /​ quantified self

• Career selection

• The overwhelming importance of the far future

• EA Organisations