Lizka

• Lizka 27 May 2022 13:10 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: ChrisL’s comment on: The Effec­tive Altru­ism Handbook

  Hi Chris, thanks for suggesting this! I’ll add it.

[Question] Who wants to be hired? (Sum­mer 2022)

[Question] Who’s hiring? (Sum­mer 2022)

• Lizka 25 May 2022 14:20 UTC

  9 points

  on: EA Speaker Re­pos­i­tory?

  Thanks for posting this question! You can see an incomplete list of speakers from past EA Global conferences here: https://​​www.eaglobal.org/​​speakers/​​

  And you can see lots of videos here: https://​​www.youtube.com/​​c/​​EffectiveAltruismVideos/​​featured

  (Although you might already be aware of both of these resources.)

• Lizka 24 May 2022 12:23 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Sophia’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Thanks for this suggestion! You can in fact see your past upvotes, although the feature is really not easily discoverable right now, sadly.

Link-post­ing is an act of com­mu­nity service

• Lizka 16 May 2022 10:23 UTC

  21 points

  on: Guided by the Beauty of One’s Philoso­phies: Why Aes­thet­ics Matter

  I’ll echo some of the other commenters: thanks for writing this, I appreciated the post! I don’t entirely agree with everything you say, but I do really want to see more art and thought put into aesthetics. (On the other hand, I’m not sure how much of our resources we should put into this.)

  You might be interested in:

  • My question from January: “What are some artworks relevant to EA?”

  • “FLI launches Worldbuilding Contest with $100,000 in prizes,” also from January (I only skimmed the initial post and haven’t looked at the submissions yet)

  • The “Effective altruism art and fiction” topic

• Lizka 13 May 2022 20:24 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: Zach Stein-Perlman’s comment on: Against “longter­mist” as an identity

  Thanks for this comment!

  I think you’re right that I’m proving too much with the broad argument, and I like your reframing of the arguments I’m making as things to be wary of. I’m still uncomfortable with longtermism-as-identity, though—possibly because I’m less certain of the four beliefs in (0).

  I’d be interested in drawing the boundaries more carefully and trying to see when a worldview (that is dependent on empirical knowledge) can safely(ish) become an identity without messing too much with my ability to reason clearly.

• Lizka 13 May 2022 20:19 UTC

  8 points

  in reply to: Habryka’s comment on: Against “longter­mist” as an identity

  Fair point, thanks!

  I think it’s probably not great to have “effective altruist” as an identity either (I largely agree with Jonas’s post and the others I linked), although I disagree with the case you’re making for this.

  I think that my case against EA-as-identity would be more on the (2) side, to use the framing of your post. Yours seems to be from (1), and based (partly) on the claim that “EA” requires the assumption that “you have to try to do the most good” (which I think is false). (I also think you’re pointing to the least falsifiable of the assumptions/​cruxes I listed for longtermism.)

  In practice, I probably slip more with “effective altruist” than I do with “longtermist,” and call people “EAs” more (including myself, in my head). This post is largely me thinking through what I should do—rather than explaining to readers how they should emulate me.

Against “longter­mist” as an identity

Re­sults from the First Decade Review

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: April-May 2022

• Lizka 12 May 2022 12:41 UTC

  18 points

  on: Lizka’s Shortform

  I keep coming back to this map/​cartogram. It’s just so great.

  

• Lizka 11 May 2022 9:21 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: RA’s comment on: New? Start here! (Use­ful links)

  Thanks for pointing this out! Yeah, the link was broken, but it should work now.

• Lizka 10 May 2022 9:05 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: evelynciara’s comment on: Open Thread: Novem­ber 2021

  The shortform should in fact appear in recent activity—not sure what happened there.

  And I agree that we should grow and develop low-barrier ways of interacting with the Forum.

• Lizka 9 May 2022 10:32 UTC

  9 points

  in reply to: Rasool’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Thanks for pointing out that this is not discoverable! I’ve added a note about this to the user manual, but I agree that it should also just be easier to notice as you’re exploring the platform.

• Lizka 9 May 2022 10:15 UTC

  8 points

  in reply to: Rasool’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Thanks for pointing this out, and for linking to the user! I’ve deleted their account.

  For now, if you ever come across a spam user, please feel free to let me know (you can DM me on the Forum or you can email forum@effectivealtruism.org ), but I agree that a feature like this should exist.

• Lizka 6 May 2022 13:53 UTC

  11 points

  in reply to: MichaelA’s comment on: My thoughts on nan­otech­nol­ogy strat­egy re­search as an EA cause area

  As a moderator, I agree with Michael. The comment Michael’s replying to goes against Forum norms.

How to use the Fo­rum (table of con­tents)

• Lizka 4 May 2022 18:05 UTC

  9 points

  on: List of lists of EA-re­lated open philos­o­phy re­search questions

  Thanks for sharing this!

  I also recommend looking at Michael’s “central directory of open research questions,” which has a lot of topics to explore.