Thanks! We’ve been quite successful/lucky getting speakers. We’re going to have another talk by Elie tonight. Later in the semester, we’ll have George Church and Steven Pinker.
As for FLI, the main thing now is x-risk publicity (ie articles, editing wikipedia to replace sci-fi with science, etc.), project prioritization, conferences and panel discussions for academics and people working in AI. All of those are going really well, much faster than expected.
Sorry for the double-post, figured it would be better to sign up with my real name
Hi, I’m Ales, a second-year student at Harvard College and a prospective economics major interested in too many things.
I’m currently one of the co-presidents of Harvard College Effective Altruism [1], in which position I succeeded Ben Kuhn. We are currently working on making HCEA an established organization and it seems like we’re getting near the critical mass of dedicated people to work on some really great projects. We’re also helping to found a group at MIT and Tufts, and our organizers volunteer for the Future of Life Institute.
[1] http://harvardea.org/
[2] http://thefutureoflife.org/