Bill Chen

Karma: 179

Currently managing finances and figuring out how best to build field building pipelines at Raise.

Formally at Pivotal Research mapping out Chinese AI policy pipelines.

Bill Chen 8 Jul 2023 12:56 UTC
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in reply to: Geoffrey Miller’s comment on: Effective Altruism and Eastern Ethics
Hi! This makes sense. I think the average higher tolerance of certain ideals in the UK/US and the following EA ideals still make it harder for significant groups of people to undertake the same actions which I hope EA at times can recognise.

Bill Chen 8 Jul 2023 12:54 UTC
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in reply to: Larks’s comment on: Effective Altruism and Eastern Ethics
Hi! This is a common action by many and at times me as well. I agree the disutility of conflict is perhaps not worth the gain in reduced suffering when I’ve already cut meat out of my diet ~95% of the time. Really appreciate your comment! I think it’s a hard bullet to bite and the post’s was to highlight how some actions prevalent in EA can be significantly harder for some.

Bill Chen 28 Jun 2023 5:17 UTC
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on: What’s the theory of change of “Come to the bay over the summer!”?
Adding a comment from an exchange me and Luise had on this post.

The benefits of going to the Bay are probably also highly cause area contingent imo. For example, someone who does animal welfare I would imagine to have significantly less benefit than someone doing AI technical/community building. If the original post seems very alien to your understanding of the Bay, it may be because the benefits (especially 1, 2 and 3) simply do not exist on the scale for your cause area. I’m fairly confident on this statement.

Bill Chen 20 May 2023 19:49 UTC
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on: Lessons learned from offering in-office nutritional testing
Thank you for this! This has made me think quite seriously about getting tested and regularly so.

Bill Chen 20 May 2023 12:26 UTC
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Bill Chen 1 May 2023 23:47 UTC
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on: Growing the Animal Advocacy Community in China—Engaging Stakeholders in Research for Improved Effectiveness
Defo neglected and somewhere where a lot of work can be done! I’m really happy that there are people working on this. I’m personally really unsure of the trajectory of this and any timelines but just the fact that so much research has gone into this has really made my day.

加油！

Bill Chen 29 Apr 2023 23:21 UTC
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on: Life in a Day: The film that opened my heart to effective altruism
I love this.

Bill Chen 1 Apr 2023 11:08 UTC
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on: New 80,000 Hours feature: Listen to audio versions of our podcast transcripts
Thanks Bella.
I’m just wondering, would there be an audio description feature to make it feel more alive? Eg: If t he script calls for [manic laughter], will this be replicated or will it only be read aloud as such?
Many thanks
Bill

Bill Chen 16 Mar 2023 1:47 UTC
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on: EA Organization Updates & Opportunities: March 2023
Hi, I can’t find any information relating to Singer in London through the linked Twitter, their website nor anywhere else online. Has anyone else found any info?

Bill Chen 12 Mar 2023 23:36 UTC
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in reply to: Jeff Kaufman 🔸’s comment on: Racial and gender demographics at EA Global in 2022
Agreed. Needs work here.

Bill Chen 7 Feb 2023 14:59 UTC
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in reply to: Yadav’s comment on: The Importance of A Strong Community Network.
Hi,

While I think it would have been nice, it seems to be more a supererogatory act. Community building is hard and focusing on the key tenants of your community seem to be of way higher EV than spreading yourself too thinly with the few resources that are perhaps available. At the same time, I would agree ideally that this would be done but I fully sympathise with the past structure.

Bill Chen 12 Nov 2022 0:40 UTC
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in reply to: Jackson Wagner’s comment on: Signed Huel Bottle by William Macaskill—How Much Can I auction it for?
FTX crash may have delayed this by 5 years.

Bill Chen 5 Nov 2022 14:47 UTC
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in reply to: para’s comment on: Signed Huel Bottle by William Macaskill—How Much Can I auction it for?
Can you transact in Soylent bottles?