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Aaron Gertler 🔸

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I ran the Forum for three years. I’m no longer an active moderator, but I still provide advice to the team in some cases.

I’m a Communications Officer at Open Philanthropy. Before that, I worked at CEA, on the Forum and other projects. I also started Yale’s student EA group, and I spend a few hours a month advising a small, un-Googleable private foundation that makes EA-adjacent donations.

Outside of EA, I play Magic: the Gathering on a semi-professional level and donate half my winnings (more than $50k in 2020) to charity.

Before my first job in EA, I was a tutor, a freelance writer, a tech support agent, and a music journalist. I blog, and keep a public list of my donations, at aarongertler.net.

[Question] What are the EA move­ment’s most no­table ac­com­plish­ments?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 23, 2021, 3:51 AM
63 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Per­verse Ex­cited Failure & Jus­tified Gen­eral Frustration

Josh JacobsonAug 13, 2021, 11:42 PM
40 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[PR FAQ] Shar­ing read­er­ship data with Fo­rum authors

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 9, 2021, 10:47 AM
95 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

Eng­ineer­ing the Apoca­lypse: Rob Reid and Sam Har­ris on en­g­ineered pan­demics (tran­script)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 6, 2021, 3:31 AM
33 points
1 comment120 min readEA link

Open Thread: Au­gust 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 2, 2021, 10:04 AM
12 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 31, 2021, 12:20 PM
16 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for April 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 29, 2021, 1:12 AM
26 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Con­tent Spe­cial­ist, CEA

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 19, 2021, 1:56 AM
65 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

You should write about your job

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 19, 2021, 1:26 AM
97 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

Lant Pritch­ett on the fu­til­ity of “smart buys” in de­vel­op­ing-world education

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 18, 2021, 11:00 PM
58 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Polls: A re­source that exists

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 10, 2021, 6:15 AM
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The most suc­cess­ful EA pod­cast of all time: Sam Har­ris and Will MacAskill (2020)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 3, 2021, 9:47 PM
168 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

Open Thread: July 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 1, 2021, 9:16 AM
11 points
36 comments1 min readEA link

New Roles in Global Health and Wel­lbe­ing (Open Philan­thropy)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 29, 2021, 7:48 PM
38 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: June 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 26, 2021, 12:37 AM
29 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] What are some ex­am­ples of suc­cess­ful so­cial change?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 22, 2021, 10:51 PM
31 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Fo­rum up­date: New fea­tures (June 2021)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 17, 2021, 5:01 AM
32 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some high-im­pact paths for a young per­son in the de­vel­op­ing world?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 14, 2021, 5:45 AM
31 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What is an ex­am­ple of re­cent, tan­gible progress in AI safety re­search?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 14, 2021, 5:29 AM
35 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Open Thread: June 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 3, 2021, 12:43 AM
11 points
15 comments1 min readEA link