Data analyst at a consulting firm, previously ran an EA university group.
Rebecca
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Yeah I interpreted the scope of the forum as ‘meta-EA’/meta-meta rather than meta-[specific causes].
If this article sees others like it, it could cause the UK to back away from x-risk concerns
I think it’s hard for a lot of people to think of what those reasons could be that are compelling, without further specificity
What is a fridge cause?
By ‘the above’ I meant my comment rather than your previous one. Have edited to make this clearer.
I’d definitely appreciate hearing the list spelled out.
Re “work like incubating new charities, advising inexperienced charity entrepreneurs, and influencing funding decisions should be done by people with particularly good judgement about how to run strong organisations, in addition to having admirable intentions”, I think this is the single best sentence that has been written on this so far.
Those do seem like significant differences, and at least the 1st one is something that the Nonlinear team were asking to be corrected as very relevant to the sick Alice situation. It is an update for me that they were correct.
Glassdoor states that 14 of the reviews were about Emerson. I’m not able to view all the reviews to verify this myself. Are you able to confirm that none of those 14 reviews were about Emerson? If that’s the case, it seems like an error that Emerson would benefit from trying to get fixed.
The line I’m referring to is “if published as is we intend to pursue legal action”. That is consistent with being fine with him publishing at all, but not consistent with being fine if he decides to not change anything in the post after getting all the facts in a week.
Combining this line with the ones you mentioned gives the impression that the message you’re trying to convey is ‘what Ben has written is false and libellous, we have asked him to wait a week so he can correct his post before publishing, after getting all the facts. If he doesn’t do both these things, we intend to sue’, and I think it’s reasonable for anyone to have interpreted it this way, even if that’s not what you intended.
The email is contradictory as to whether the desire to sue is based on the content of the post or the duration before posting, with I belief the former appearing first in the email.
Partially based on Asya’s comment in her reflections post that there was difficulty keeping track of deadlines, and partially an assumption that the reason for in some cases not having any communication with an applicant by their stated time-sensitive deadline was because that was not kept track of. It’s good to hear you were keeping track of this, although confusing to me that it didn’t help with this.
If someone told me about a temporary 5x increase in volume that understandably messed things up, I would think they were talking about a couple month timeframe, not 8 months to 2 years. Surely there’s some point at which you step back and realise you need to adapt your systems to scale with demand? E.g. automating deadline notifications.
It’s also not clear to me that either supply or demand for funding will go back to pre-LTFF levels, given the increased interest in AI safety from both potential donors and potential recipients.
Yeah makes sense, I meant a crux for the food thing specifically :)
I think a crux in this is what you think the reason is for Alice being so unassertive towards Kat in the messages—was it because she’s worried, based on experience, about angering her employers and causing negative consequences for herself, e.g. them saying she’s being too difficult and refuse to help her at all, or some other, more favourable to Kat and Emerson, reason?
Are those in cheaper countries than the US/UK?
What is bragading?
This feeds into Jonas’ argument in his recent Quick Take about focusing on talent development rather than community building—focusing on bringing in top potential applicants rather than on the number of people interested in EA jobs
I am quite confused about why keeping track of individual deadlines isn’t automated?
Are you able to clarify what the issue with titotal’s posts is?