Iām a moderator for the EA Forum, and an AI Systems Specialist for 80,000 Hours.
I ran the EA Forum team for 2 years, and was the original developer working on the EA Forum 2.0 for 5 years before that.
Prior to CEA, I was a data engineer at an aerospace startup. I got into EA through reading the entire archive of Slate Star Codex in 2015. I found EA naturally compelling, and donated to AMF, then GFI, before settling on my current cause prioritization of meta-EA, with AI x-risk as my object-level preference. I try to have a wholehearted approach to morality, rather than thinking of it as an obligation or opportunity. You see my LessWrong profile here.
In my personal life, I hang out in the Boston EA and Gaymer communities, enjoy houseplants, table tennis, and playing coop games with my partner, who has more karma than me.
In the post that prompted the ban, they asked whether murdering meat-eaters could be considered ethical. I donāt want to comment on whether this would be an appropriate topic for a late night philosophy club conversation, it is not an appropriate topic for the EA Forum.