Part-time Community Health Coordinator at EA NYC
Full-time social worker
All-the-time human
MeganNelson
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Announcement on the Future of EA NYC’s Dim Sum Restaurant
Celebrating Progress: Recent Highlights from the NYC EA Community
Effective Altruism in New York City: Introduction
Hi Louisa—when you have a minute, could you edit your comment to add links to the 80k articles that address these issues? It’d be an easy step towards connecting those messages with the people who could benefit from them (and who may well be inclined to read this particular Forum post and comments).
Thank you!
An EA’s Guide to Visiting New York City
The Community Health Coordinator Role in EA Groups
Thank you for writing this up, Severin. I think you’re really onto something: EA communities can work as wonderful containers (borrowing your phrase!), as stable launchpads, and as supportive audiences for movement building. Trying to change the world is hard work, and having a community makes it easier.
I’m delighted to hear about your successes—you are empowering your community members to explore their own ideas and to put them into action. That’s next-level community building!
Apply Now: First-Ever EAGxNYC This August
We wouldn’t be the first uh, social movement to spread our message via BBQ seitan.
We are 94% certain that this is the greatest thing that EA NYC has ever done.
This post makes me uncomfortable. I tried to talk to @Derek Shiller about making a 1% Spending What We Can pledge, and he muttered something about living in a van down by the river. Then he wrote a check to Shrimp Welfare Project.
Are we doing this right?
>There’s often a big difference between castles and manor houses.
This came up several times during the course of our project, invariably from folks who live outside of NYC. No one on our team could figure out what they were talking about.
To try to find out, we secured a grant[1] to commission researchers at the Global Risk Lab at NYU to create a battery of specialized psychological tests. Unfortunately, no one on our team could accurately differentiate between the concepts of “castle” and “manor house”, despite Josh and Lucius showing us flashcards until they burst into tears.
We’re unsure of the cause of this cognitive blind-spot, but we strongly suspect it’s because we’re all a bunch of peasants.
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The spare change we found under Jacob Eliosoff’s couch cushions.
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We’ve also ordered ten custom lazy-susan tables from Japan.
>How much did this cost?
Approximately $25million for the initial purchase, which when you consider the price of NYC real estate and the anticipated gain in NALYs (noodle-adjusted life-years) is an absolute steal.
>I understand they money didn’t come from FTX sources, but where did it come from?
Rocky found a duffle bag full of money on the J train at 3am and I reverse-catfished a Facebook romance scammer. Alex and Arthur raised the balance of the down payment by busking at the Union Square subway station (they both play the accordion).
>There isn’t any cell reception in the back corner. Do you plan on fixing this?
I’m glad you asked! Many members of the community find that avoiding cell phone use during periods of intense work helps them stay on-task. We anticipate that the back corner of our vegan dim sum restaurant will be an excellent place for sustained focus.
>please don’t remove the drop ceiling!
I’m way ahead of you—I love it so much I’ve asked my building super to install a trendy “distressed” drop ceiling in my apartment!
Announcing the April 1st Purchase of Bodhi Kosher Vegetarian Restaurant by EA NYC
Thank you for writing this and for posting it here. Thank you for sharing your own story and experience.
We all have a responsibility to this community, and to every community we’re part of. I’ve been thinking for a while about bystanders, and how to encourage folks to think about “community health” not as law enforcement or emergency services, but as the atmosphere that we are all engaged with (for better or for worse, whether or not we realize it). The metaphor of a collectively shouldered burden is really good.
I hope your post is widely read. Please know that I appreciate it.
I’m heartened to hear that this project is underway, and I’m looking forward to being able to use this information to make our communities (local and global) better. Thank you, Catherine, Anu, and Łukasz!
Please feel free to reach out to me if I can be helpful. I don’t have data to share at this time, but I want to support and encourage you in this work if I can.
I agree! Thank you to the Forum mods and the CEA Community Health Team for doing the hard jobs that make our community possible.
That said, I’d like to suggest that the absolute best way to thank them is to please not make their jobs any harder.
Even if you’re “one of the good guys”, think about how you can extend and expand that goodness through the community by promoting norms and values that steer us away from future problems. We all have a part to play in supporting a healthy EA community.
thank you!