I lead the Centre for Effective Altruism. I used to be a moderator here, and helped to launch the new version of the Forum in 2018.
Here’s my LinkedIn.
Feel free to reach out if you think I might be able to help you. Follow the links to give (anonymous) feedback to me or CEA.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
Seems like a nice short summary of an important point (despite its current karma of 2!)
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think this still might be the best analysis of an important question for longtermism? But it is also a bit in-the-weeds.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
Might be one of the best intros to EA?
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
Maybe worth including, for similar reasons to its sister post.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
[I work with Julia.]
I think this piece is maybe the best short summary of a strand in Julia’s writing that has helped EA to seem more attainable for people.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think this is another piece that can probably help people relate to EA ideas more healthily.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I like this overall (re-)framing of EA: I think that both words are things that are important to EA (and that we maybe want even more of on the margin).
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I like this piece.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
Seems like a core post/idea to me.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I really like the direct, personal, thoughtful style of this talk, and would like to see more posts like it. Seems like maybe one of the best intros-of-this-length to the reasons for working on AI alignment.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think a lot of EAs (including me) believe roughly this, and this is one of the best summaries out there.
At the same time, I’m not sure it’s a core EA principle, or critical for arguing for any particular cause area, and I hesitate about making it canonical.
But it seems plausible that we should include this.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think this is a pretty good intro to EA-ish thinking, particularly the nuance around how to relate to commitment. But maybe less good than some of the other intros.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think this is a great summary. I have some hesitations about quite how canonical this has become, but I do think this is a really important piece in terms of EA’s history.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
This seems to do a good job
addressing a somewhat-common failure mode for EAs.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
In some sense, it would be pretty weird to focus on such a particular event/charity. But I think this post is maybe a really good pointer to EA’s commitment to make hard decisions to maximise impact.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
If we include Helen’s piece, I think it might be worth including both this and the first comment on this post, to show some other aspects of the picture here. (I think all three pieces are getting at something important, but none of them is a great overall summary.)
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think this is a nice summary of some important community norms
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think it’s pretty important that we don’t get too anchored on a specific set of 3-4 cause areas, and I think it’s also important that people feel there are other things to do even if they’re not well placed to work on those 3-4 cause areas. I think this piece makes these sorts of general points well and is the best collection of other plausible-seeming things to explore.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think this piece is making an important intellectual point (clarifying a pretty reasonable-seeming objection to EA thinking). And it’s also pretty emotionally motivating to me.
[I’m doing a bunch of low-effort reviews of posts I read a while ago and think are important. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-read them or say very nuanced things about them.]
I think this piece is a nice short summary of one of the very most core principles of EA thinking.