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.
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.