Totally agree this is important.
EA Colorado just did an 8 week series on investing & personal finance led by a local EA & Financial advisor. We took notes on the entire series that cover tons of in-depth content on this exact subject. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QVuqnghYkclcTABLMtPEGDNsdwwN6ptz22amyScGY8A/
(^These are still a WIP but will be done soon)
So cool to see this happening ~ I’m a big fan of end of year reflections and actually made a tool based more specifically on EA principles this year. I’ve used Year Compass in the past and wanted to try designing something more specific. If anyone decides to use it I’d love to know what you thought!
there’s a lot of techno-optimism in this community, but certainly not sufficient examples that recreating self-sustaining life in human-engineered settings is possible. Feels like an incredibly risky bet to me as well.
I appreciate your willingness to put this aspect of your lived experience into writing and share it. I hear that’s its not inclusive of every angle or experience—and think the forum can be a really helpful place to find people going through similar experiences. Mostly commenting to support the processing, naming, and sharing of the vast, deep, and sometimes confuddling experience that is community building in a goal-oriented, highly calculating community that is very much in the thick of teenage growing pains.
EA could use more climbers and rock climbing analogies. Appreciate this post :)
It’s a complex interaction for sure, and gets into some thorny questions that inevitably run into making evaluations of lived (nonhuman) experiences we can’t possibly claim to understand. Using longterm scales makes it clear that this issue will determine whether billions of trillions of individuals get to experience life. It’s clear that certain land dynamics lead to more life, so if there’s more inhabitable space on Earth’s surface it means there’s more room for life.
Then those with decision making power have to take a philosophical stance as to whether to ensure more possibility space for life or make twisted conclusions about QALYs we don’t really understand…
I imagine you can source entrepreneurial minded folks in more promising places than high schools—likely there are masters programs that teach a course on entrepreneurship, say as part of a environment, policy, or food systems related program, that would have early to mid range professionals who often graduate with less clarity/job leads than expected from a masters program (speaking from anecdotal knowledge). But connecting with a few professors at universities would likely shed much more light.
We’re doing an in person social next week in Boulder if you want to come say hi :)
I would love to see how you’d solve that equation now, compared to when you first wrote it. Glad your teacher knew where to point you!
Hello! I’m one of the folks who only recently found out about EA but have been hacking my own independent version for years… It’s incredible to find what I had hoped was in existence after so long. (My portal key was this podcast episode: https://samharris.org/podcasts/228-doing-good/)
It feels like walking into a room of strangers but realizing, ‘Now these are my people’. The most parallel experience I’ve had was being invited to an Ecoversities gathering a few years back, arriving in a Costa Rica and within a few hours feeling a sense of soul belonging. (If you believe in rooted, whole-self development.. Here they are http://ecoversities.org/)
My passion is supporting young people in finding their path and their autonomy—and I’m in the process of interviewing folks who do feel they’ve found a way to live an inspired, impactful life about how they got there. Anyone here want to participate? *
*Disclaimer: You don’t to have all your everything figured out, would love to talk to most anyone who’s found their way here.