You may benefit from joining the Facebook group Bay Area Effective Altruists, which does list some events. It’s easier to find events if you’re willing to widen your search space to include East Bay and South Bay, though still not amazing.
For as long as I’ve been here, the bay area has substantially less publicly accessible EA events than other EA hubs. Most EAs coming to the area find connections via pre-existing personal or professional networks.
This is a Known Issue, but relatively few people try very hard to resolve it. Or more precisely, many people who try to organize public Bay Area EA events soon come across jobs or volunteering projects that they perceive to be higher impact and/or funner, or otherwise burn out, so the organizer turnover is unusually high.
Seems like this should be resolvable by recruiting a new person or two to organise these events. If these people go on to better opportunities, well then they could be replaced again. Constantly replacing people would be some effort, but could be worthwhile if it’s a pipeline to high impact opportunities.
I guess the critique is that the management or infrastructure or community attention to setup and maintain such a pipeline (constantly provisioning 2 people of required dedication and ability) has the same opportunity cost or difficulty.
My understanding is such a pipeline barely exists for any university or hub, even the HYPS schools where 7 figures in spending has been considered.
Thanks to your advice, I found a meetup within a week from today. I was not able to look properly due to the stress of recently arriving in east bay without any of my furniture. Thank you for all the help.
I just moved to SF from DC and I did a bunch of google searches to find EA meetups in DC SF, and I found nothing whatsoever.
If you are actually looking for meetups in DC there are plenty including one tonight :) More info about this month’s events here :) {edited to add the link is https://linktr.ee/ea_dc]
Weird, the link (https://linktr.ee/ea_dc) works for me. Maybe Link Tree was down for a spell? Anyway this is a link tree for Washington DC but it sounds like you’re in SF. If you are back in DC feel free to DM me and I’ll make sure you get squared away!
You may benefit from joining the Facebook group Bay Area Effective Altruists, which does list some events. It’s easier to find events if you’re willing to widen your search space to include East Bay and South Bay, though still not amazing.
For as long as I’ve been here, the bay area has substantially less publicly accessible EA events than other EA hubs. Most EAs coming to the area find connections via pre-existing personal or professional networks.
This is a Known Issue, but relatively few people try very hard to resolve it. Or more precisely, many people who try to organize public Bay Area EA events soon come across jobs or volunteering projects that they perceive to be higher impact and/or funner, or otherwise burn out, so the organizer turnover is unusually high.
Seems like this should be resolvable by recruiting a new person or two to organise these events. If these people go on to better opportunities, well then they could be replaced again. Constantly replacing people would be some effort, but could be worthwhile if it’s a pipeline to high impact opportunities.
I guess the critique is that the management or infrastructure or community attention to setup and maintain such a pipeline (constantly provisioning 2 people of required dedication and ability) has the same opportunity cost or difficulty.
My understanding is such a pipeline barely exists for any university or hub, even the HYPS schools where 7 figures in spending has been considered.
Thanks to your advice, I found a meetup within a week from today. I was not able to look properly due to the stress of recently arriving in east bay without any of my furniture. Thank you for all the help.
In the first sentence I think you mean SF?
If you are actually looking for meetups in DC there are plenty including one tonight :) More info about this month’s events here :) {edited to add the link is https://linktr.ee/ea_dc]
That link sent me here:
Also, I registered for an event on the 15th but I never got any sort of confirmation email, no idea if I’ll be approved in time.
I’ve seen this sort of thing before, it reeks of hacking by a 3rd party.
Weird, the link (https://linktr.ee/ea_dc) works for me. Maybe Link Tree was down for a spell? Anyway this is a link tree for Washington DC but it sounds like you’re in SF. If you are back in DC feel free to DM me and I’ll make sure you get squared away!
Have you checked this https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/events? There are some meetups in Berkeley.