I ran the Forum for three years. Iâm no longer an active moderator.
I write web content for 80,000 Hours. Previously:
2022-2025: I worked in communications at Coefficient Giving.
2019-2021: I worked at CEA, on the Forum and other projects.
2016-18: Alongside non-EA gigs, I did piecemeal ops work for CEA and CFAR.
2014-15: I founded and ran Yaleâs student EA group.
Outside of EA, I play Magic: the Gathering on a semi-professional level and donate most of my winnings to charity (this amounts to ~$60K so far).
Outside of EA, Iâve been a tutor, a freelance writer, a tech support agent, and (very briefly) a music journalist. I blog, and keep a public list of my donations, at aarongertler.com.
TIL: In 1971, Mario Pierre Roymans stole a Vermeer painting and tried to ransom it for a donation to starving Bengali refugees. Itâs an interesting example of naive altruistic utilitarianism before EA â inspired by the same famine that led Peter Singer to write âFamine, Affluence, and Moralityâ.
(Roymans was apprehended and spent six months in prison; no ransom was paid. )