I’m not involved with either of these funds, but here are three projects I really want to see happen:
More recruiting for EA orgs: FHI wants to grow a bunch and could benefit from having more great researchers referred. Probably similar is true for other orgs.
Targeted outreach using social media advertisements: EA is currently doing little outreach for fear of dilution, and is thereby foregoing many of the benefits of our surplus of funds and ideas. Maybe we could do more outreach in a way that doesn’t bring about dilution, such as by advertising intellectual content in a way that’s filtered to just intellectual audiences.
EA Oxford community. There’s ~45 employees at FHI/GPI/Forethought/CEA-UK but almost all of the community activities are run by and directed at students.
Regarding EA Oxford: I can understand the general goal of “having professionals work on community things”, but are there particular issues you’ve seen with Oxford community activities? Specific things you think EA org employees could improve on?
I think there should be an Oxford group that has as its audience the people in EA orgs, with activities to improve happiness, productivity, and the attractiveness of these workplaces, which is quite different from the goal of trying to grow a community of students. On this front, I’ve been spending time finding group housing near the new office. It would also be good to have short-term housing for visitors. It would be good to have dinners, and fun activities on a Friday night. In-principle, the range of activities that could be helped by proximity to the Oxford orgs is extremely large, but things that interact more closely with the orgs, like grant recommendations, or recruitment, just to pick a couple of arbitrary examples, would have to be worked out beforehand.
I’m not involved with either of these funds, but here are three projects I really want to see happen:
More recruiting for EA orgs: FHI wants to grow a bunch and could benefit from having more great researchers referred. Probably similar is true for other orgs.
Targeted outreach using social media advertisements: EA is currently doing little outreach for fear of dilution, and is thereby foregoing many of the benefits of our surplus of funds and ideas. Maybe we could do more outreach in a way that doesn’t bring about dilution, such as by advertising intellectual content in a way that’s filtered to just intellectual audiences.
EA Oxford community. There’s ~45 employees at FHI/GPI/Forethought/CEA-UK but almost all of the community activities are run by and directed at students.
Regarding EA Oxford: I can understand the general goal of “having professionals work on community things”, but are there particular issues you’ve seen with Oxford community activities? Specific things you think EA org employees could improve on?
I think there should be an Oxford group that has as its audience the people in EA orgs, with activities to improve happiness, productivity, and the attractiveness of these workplaces, which is quite different from the goal of trying to grow a community of students. On this front, I’ve been spending time finding group housing near the new office. It would also be good to have short-term housing for visitors. It would be good to have dinners, and fun activities on a Friday night. In-principle, the range of activities that could be helped by proximity to the Oxford orgs is extremely large, but things that interact more closely with the orgs, like grant recommendations, or recruitment, just to pick a couple of arbitrary examples, would have to be worked out beforehand.