Ivan Burduk

• Ivan Burduk 23 Sep 2024 11:44 UTC

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  on: Vi­pas­sana and Effec­tive Altru­ism: How med­i­ta­tion em­pow­ered me as an activist

  Thanks for writing this! Well written :)

  I recently attended my third course and I echo the idea that Vipassana has made me a better activist (as well partner, friend, son, colleague, etc).

  I like your recommendation to implement this at an organizational level. While it might not be practical for all orgs, I think it’s a neat idea to incentivize attendance (with the understanding that Vipassana might not be for everyone — though neither is a Project Management online course).

  I also think the EA community is overrepresented on having attended at least one Vipassana course, compared to the general population; but that’s just a guess/​speculation.

• Ivan Burduk 20 Aug 2024 15:07 UTC

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  on: A Case for Nuanced Risk Assessment

  Hey Molly,
  
  Thanks for the post!
  Definitely agree that it would be valuable to explicate our models of the world, especially numerically!
  
  Heads up that you have a repeat paragraph immediately after the probability graph for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

  “When we’re estimating the risk of an extinction-causing asteroid impact...”

• Ivan Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:31 UTC

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  in reply to: Rafael Ruiz’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  For now, the standard 12 signs is the easiest to implement. However, we will follow up with an Ophiuchus update in due course!

• Ivan Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:30 UTC

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  in reply to: Dušan D. Nešić (Dushan)’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  The implementation of Feng-Shui for venue spaces was considered to be out of budget; though this is something we will be keeping in mind for future conferences. We are still evaluating Numerology for effectiveness, though preliminary results suggest that the recursive reduction sum of your birth-date may be predictive of compatibility with others e.g. 11/​11/​1999 DD/​MM/​YYYY = 5+9+9+9 = 32 (3+2) = 5. Numbers closer to you (imagine 1–9 in a circle) may be more likely to be compatible.

• Ivan Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:24 UTC

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  in reply to: Abby Babby’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  It’s been a long haul, but we’ve finally convinced their CEO (a Pisces), that redeveloping their core architecture to support star-sign matching would be a good business decision.

• Ivan Burduk 4 Apr 2024 16:22 UTC

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  in reply to: Sanjay’s comment on: EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

  While our star signs may be relevant for optimizing 1-1 matches (sorry, we’re not compatible), we don’t have evidence to suggest there’s any influence of star signs on the ability to evaluate the use of star signs to optimize 1-1 matches. We therefore recommend against using the lack of knowledge of our star signs as a reason to not believe our claims.

[April fool’s] EA Global: we’re im­prov­ing 1-on-1s

• Ivan Burduk 7 Mar 2024 11:14 UTC

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  in reply to: Sinclair Chen’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Do you think it was better?

Re­view of EA Global Bay Area 2024 (Global Catas­trophic Risks)

• Ivan Burduk 25 Dec 2023 14:54 UTC

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  in reply to: calebp’s comment on: Joseph Lemien’s Shortform

  Hi Caleb,

  Ivan from the EAG team here — I’m responsible for a bunch of the systems we use at our events (including Swapcard).

  Thanks for flagging this! It’s useful to hear that this could do with more clarity. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way we can add help text or sub text to the Swapcard fields due to Swapcard limitations. However, we could rename the labels/​field names to make this clearer..?

  For example

  • Areas of Expertise (3+ months work experience)

  • Areas of Interest (actively seeking to learn more)

  Does that sound like something that would be helpful for you to know what to put down? I’ll take this to the EAG team and see if we can come up with something better. Let me know if you have other suggestions!

• Ivan Burduk 16 Nov 2023 18:57 UTC

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  in reply to: Guy Raveh’s comment on: Larks’s Shortform

  This piqued my curiosity, so I looked into it — it seems that there’s a pretty equal split between pre-conference meetings scheduled (2449) and during-conference meetings scheduled (2039), with meeting confirmation frequency peaking on the Friday of the event. This is just EA Global: Boston 2023 data and I haven’t looked at the others — but it does indicate to me that we don’t want to set up systems that favour one type of user and disadvantaging another.

  

• Ivan Burduk 26 Sep 2023 2:12 UTC

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  in reply to: Bella’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Yeah this is a big one, and I have actually been pushing for this feature since January. Unfortunately, Swapcard don’t see this as important enough to prioritize it. The last I heard, this was added to the Q3 roadmap, but knowing the timelines I don’t expect this to be done any time soon (though I am following up about it!).

• Ivan Burduk 24 Sep 2023 13:07 UTC

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  in reply to: Sinclair Chen’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Good luck! I’d be keen to hear how it goes for you!

• Ivan Burduk 11 Sep 2023 18:05 UTC

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  in reply to: Kirsten’s comment on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  I guess I can see it being intentionally used a mechanism to prevent people from fabricating votes, but given the difficulty of doing that relative to Swapcard’s popularity as a service — this level of resistance seems unnecessary.

• Ivan Burduk 11 Sep 2023 16:46 UTC

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  on: Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

  Wish Swapcard was better?

  Swapcard, the networking and scheduling app for EA Global and EAGx events, has published their product roadmap — where anyone can vote on features they want to see!

  Two features currently in the “Researching (Vote)” stage have been requested by our attendees since the beginning of us using Swapcard for our events:
  
  1) Reschedule a meeting
  2) External Calendar Synchronization
  
  If these sound like features you want, I encourage you to take a moment to vote for them! Every vote counts.
  
  Swapcard product roadmap

Ivan Bur­duk’s Quick takes

• Ivan Burduk 1 Sep 2023 17:17 UTC

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  in reply to: Michelle Hauser’s comment on: Should I patent my cul­ti­vated meat method?

  I don’t know how any of this works, but is it a possibility for you to tell the Tech Transfer office that you will let them file the patent conditionally on it being free-license/​non-limiting, otherwise you will publish it open-source? In line with TeddyW’s response — it sounds like licensing with “altruistic clauses” is something that the Tech Transfer office would be opposed to, given that they are for-profit; but maybe you have some leverage because presumably they have some incentive to file for the patent rather than it being fully open-source..?

• Ivan Burduk 18 Aug 2023 9:07 UTC

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  in reply to: quinn’s comment on: quinn’s Shortform

  Hi Quinn,

  I’m Ivan and I’m responsible for the systems-side of things on the CEA Events team.

  I understand and share your frustration about the confusing User Interface of Swapcard’s “Update your details?” modal. This has been confusing for multiple users in the past, and is something I’ve been pushing Swapcard to improve for a while now (I even sent them an email with a screenshot of the modal we use to do this on the EA Forum — which is magnitudes better)...

  If you are referring to data completed via the registration form, I can have this data re-pushed to Swapcard for you so that you don’t have to re-type it (note that you’ll need to select the “Accept new data” option for this to work). The reason this whole thing exists is because of GDPR and so we can’t technically edit user profile data without their consent.

  If you encountered the modal after filling out your profile on Swapcard, then please let me know — as this would indicate that the modal is showing at the wrong time, and I can follow up with Swapcard about this.

  Hope this helps!

• Ivan Burduk 8 Mar 2023 16:01 UTC

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  in reply to: david_reinstein’s comment on: Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

  Thanks, updated!

• Ivan Burduk 8 Mar 2023 16:01 UTC

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  in reply to: david_reinstein’s comment on: Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

  Sorry I’m not sure what you mean here?