Hey. Iām Jordan. Iām currently the EA Global Content Coordinator at CEA, meaning I arrange all the talks, workshop and meetups at EAG conferences.
Previously, I was involved in a variety of EA community-building projects, including running EA Oxford for the 23ā24 academic year.
Feel free to reach out if you want to share feedback on EAG, or have ideas for content!
Sorry for not being clearer, I meant just including the average scores :)
Thanks for sharing this! Minor feedback: Iād like to see the survey data (eg. your average LTR) in text in addition to the graphs
Thanks Jan, I appreciate this comment. Iām on the EAG team, but responding with my personal thoughts.
While itās true that we weight 1:1s heavily in assessing EAG, I donāt think weāre doing āargmax prioritisationāāwe still run talks, workshops, meetups, and ~1/ā4 of our team time goes to this. My read of your argument is that weāre scoring things wrong and should give more consideration to the impact of group conversation. Youāre right that we donāt currently explicitly track the impact of group conversations, which could mean weāre missing significant value.
I do plan to think more about how we can make these group conversations happen and measure their success. I havenāt yet heard a suggestion (in this thread or elsewhere) that I believe would sufficiently move the needle, but maybe this is because weāre over-optimising for better feedback survey scores in the short term (e.g., weāll upset some attendees if we turn off specific 1:1 slots).
Hi Taymon. Iām on the EAG team, and weāre currently thinking about how we can improve meetups. I really appreciate you writing this up and sharing!
Great job on the event! Iām happy, both from a personal and impact-focused perspective, to see successful community building being done in Africa :)
Thanks Peter!
We were delayed in processing the Bay Area talk videos, but theyāll be up in the next couple of days.
Exciting! Great to see Shrek making an appearance again.
Iām planning to post at least one thing for Draft Amnesty :)
By coincidence, I just came across this layer-hen genetics project that got funding from OP. I donāt know much about the work or how promising it might be.
Luke, I took part in the GWWC ambassador program you ran in 2021 and had the pleasure of interacting with you on a few occasions. Your enthusiasm and thoughtfulness were a part of what pushed me to deepen my involvement in the EA community and eventually go on to do community building full-time. I really appreciate the work youāve done to grow GWWC into an outstanding organisation. I wish you all the best!
In case you havenāt seen it, hereās a fireside chat we hosted with Ezra Klein in 2021. It might be cool to have him back at EAG though!
I share your inclination toward significant diversification. However, I find myself grappling with the question of whether there should be specific limits on this diversification. For instance , Open Philanthropyās approach seems to be āwe diversify amongst worldviews we find plausible,ā but itās not clear to me what makes a worldview plausible. How seriously should we consider, for example, Nietzscheanism?
I agree that thinking from first principles can be great but, as Iām sure youāre aware, itās super difficult! Do you have any thoughts on encouraging and/āor facilitating more of this kind of thinking in the community?
What do you think people in the EA community get wrong (or fail to sufficiently consider) when it comes to cause prioritisation?
Iām glad this now exists, and the leadership seems great! My impression is that work on restricting the growth of the farmed insect industry is similarly very funding-constrained. Given that, Iām curious about the decision to focus the foundationās efforts exclusively on scientific research rather than also supporting policy or advocacy work.
Hello forum, just checking in as the EAGxLondon team lead. A couple of things Iād like to say:
As Ollie notes, we had some problems with the venue. Weāre hoping to have a time in early April locked in soon and will send out an announcement when we do.
Why an EAGx in London? EA Globals have a high bar for admissions, but the UK has a large number of students who are newer to EA. We want to create an opportunity for them to attend an EA event this year and EAGx will be much more accessible for them.
Is the survey data closed access? If so, would it be possible to request access? I have a few questions of my own Iād like to try answer
This is valuable input, thanks Simon :)