Since January 2024, I support two projects working at the intersection of law & AI in operations. From 2019 to 2022, I was Operations Manager and Chief of Staff at the Legal Priorities Project. Before that, I worked at the Effective Altruism Foundation and its main project—the Center on Long-Term Risk. I also co-founded the EA Munich group in 2015.
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Thanks for writing this! You might find this article interesting: The heavy-tailed valence hypothesis: the human capacity for vast variation in pleasure/pain and how to test it (largely based on this EA Forum post: Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain: Rating, Ranking, and Comparing Peak Experiences Suggest the Existence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering).
Thanks for the feedback, Max! And also for your support in the past. Super appreciated. :)
Hi! I’ve been working full time in operations at EA orgs for 6 years (3.5 years at the Center on Long-Term Risk and 2.5 at the Legal Priorities Project). I rarely ever work past 6 pm and ~never on weekends, and have had colleagues with similar boundaries. Everyone I’ve worked with has been extremely respectful of those boundaries.
When deciding whether to take a job, I think it’s possible to tell your potential employer something like “I’m willing to work X hours per week, I’m not willing to do Y, etc. Do you still want to hire me?” And let them decide. Similarly, I think recruiters should always share the worst parts about the job before hiring someone (more on this here). And if they don’t, you can always ask.
Good luck!
And the excellent Point-by-point critique of Ord’s “Why I’m Not a Negative Utilitarian” by Magnus Vinding.
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This is so amazing to read! I first met Eirik in 2015 when he was studying abroad in Munich—he also helped get EA Munich off the ground together with me and others! He continues to be one of the nicest and kindest people I know, and his enthusiasm is contagious. Very well deserved!
I guess you mean “EAGxLatinAmerica” instead of “EAGx Mexico”?
I like Numbeo and have used it for various purposes, though in this case, looking at the indices for Mexico City as a whole might not be that informative, given a) how huge Mexico is and b) the fact that fellows would likely spend most of their time in the safest parts of the city.
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Some answers to your questions might be found in this podcast on “Using Light (Sunlight, Blue Light & Red Light) to Optimize Health”, maybe also this one on “Timing Light, Food, & Exercise for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood”.
(They’re both timestamped.)
Two recent, related articles by Magnus Vinding that I enjoyed reading:
And maybe the Double Up Drive? Or would you recommend against donating to it based on previous discussions?
Another somewhat related book recommendation (which I liked and would recommend to a few people early in their career, in research and elsewhere): Reid Hoffman’s The Start-Up of You.
As someone who occasionally has to hire creatives and communicators, I was very happy to see this post. Thanks for coordinating!
Do you have any thoughts on how people like me (doing operations at an EA org) can get in touch with/hire someone in this Slack workspace? This would be both for short-term jobs (“we need a flyer for this event”, “we have this Zoom recording that should be edited and uploaded to YouTube”, etc.) and long-term collaborations.
Thanks again!
Thanks so much for writing this up! I’m super interested in this topic, too. :)
I’d like to add one thing to check: Free testosterone levels. I once had a phase of very low energy (including brain fog). A former colleague of mine suggested getting my testosterone levels checked since our symptoms were very similar. A simple saliva test confirmed our suspicions: The levels were critically low. In their case, it had been so severe that they had to undergo testosterone replacement therapy, which solved the issue almost immediately. For both of us, the period of low energy coincided with us going vegan, and that’s still our primary suspicion for the cause. I’m no nutrition expert, but my basic understanding is that the body converts cholesterol into testosterone, and vegan diets tend to be very low in cholesterol. (There are other factors that may contribute to low testosterone, such as stress, lack of good sleep, etc., but these weren’t really an issue for us.) A couple of months after changing my diet to include more foods with cholesterol, the problem was gone and my free testosterone levels were back to high. My colleague stopped replacement therapy and keeps their levels high through their diet (plus good sleep, exercise, etc.). Testosterone tests are usually very cheap and easy to carry out, so it could be very well worth it to check.
I’d also use such a deck. Thanks for the offer! :)
LPP will also be looking to raise donations in this year’s Giving Tuesday. Here’s the Facebook fundraiser, and the instructions on how to donate.
Thanks for creating this space, Gleb!
Here are a couple of things I achieved in July:
I gave a talk on some philosophical ideas behind Effective Altruism at our last EA Munich meetup. The talk attracted 30 people and the feedback was very good. The slides can be downloaded from the Facebook event.
Our EA Munich group started a fundraiser to support the Basic Income project by GiveDirectly. So far we have raised $430 and our goal is to reach $3,000. Here is the link to our fundraiser (in German).
We were interviewed by a local magazine called Grün & Gloria, whose main focus is to give their readers tips for doing good (very appropriate!). Here is the link to the article, titled “City Improvers: Doing Good Better with Effective Altruism” (in German).
I received an offer to be interviewed by the Bavarian radio station “Bayern 2” to talk about EA. The interview will be recorded at the end of August and could potentially reach thousands of listeners. :)
I proposed to start a fundraiser for GiveDirectly’s basic income project, which we just launched at EA Munich. Our goal is to raise (at least) $3,000.
Our group will participate in a large street festival here in Munich (called “Corso Leopold”) this weekend (11th and 12th of June) where we will reach hundreds of passersby and talk to them about EA (and hopefully convince them to donate to our fundraiser ;) ). We translated an EA flyer to German and will also have GWWC flyers at our stand. We will also have (speed) Giving Games, sponsored by The Life You Can Save.
We’re organizing a talk for the 23rd of June at the TU Munich by Jan Dirk Capelle from the EA Foundation. The topic will be “80,000 hours of maximum impact”. This will help us reach many students (we’re aiming for ~200).
My video interview for Intentional Insight’s series “Everyday Heroes of Effective Giving” was just released.
I really liked your talk! Congratulations, and I hope the idea continues to catch on!