michel

• michelMar 15, 2024, 3:39 PM

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  on: The Lack of EA in US Pri­vate Foundations

  Interesting post!

  these PF basically think being EA-aligned means you have to be a major pain in the ass to your grantees.

  This surprised me. I wonder why this is the case? Maybe from early GiveWell charity investigations where they made the charities do a lot of reporting? My experience with EA grantmakers is that they’re at least very aware of the costs of overhead and try hard to avoid red tape.

• michelMar 15, 2024, 3:35 PM

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  in reply to: Kyle Smith’s comment on: The Lack of EA in US Pri­vate Foundations

  Fwiw, I don’t know anybody actively promoting ‘EA has to be all-or-nothing.’ Like, there’s not an insider group of EA thought leaders who have decided that either you give “100% to AMF or you’re not an EA.” I’m not denying that that vibe can be there though; I guess it may just be more of a cultural thing, or the product of a mostly maximizing philosophy.

  Context: As part of CEA events team I help organize and attend a lot of events that draw EA thought-leaders.

I’m glad I joined an ex­pe­rienced, 20+ per­son organization

• michelMar 15, 2024, 3:14 PM

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  on: How much should we put in each bucket?

  I’m glad you posted this! I like it :)

  I hadn’t heard of the moral saint thought experiment or the “one reason too many”—both of these are interesting.

• michelMar 12, 2024, 7:36 PM

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  on: Run­ning 200 miles for New Incentives

  Cool that you’re doing this for such a good cause. Good luck!

• michelMar 1, 2024, 10:30 AM

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  on: An­nounc­ing Draft Amnesty Week (March 11-17)

  I’ll try to post two!

• michelFeb 27, 2024, 5:54 PM

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  on: How we started our own EA char­ity (and why we de­cided to wrap up)

  Thank you for trying!

• michelDec 4, 2023, 10:22 AM

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  on: michel’s Quick takes

  Bumping a previous EA forum post: Key EA decision-makers on the future of EA, reflections on the past year, and more (MCF 2023).

  This post recaps a survey about EA ‘meta’ topics (eg., talent pipelines, community building mistakes, field-building projects, etc.) that was completed by this year’s Meta Coordination Forum attendees. Meta Coordination Forum is an event for people in senior positions at community- and field-building orgs/​programs, like CEA, 80K, and Open Philanthropy’s Global Catastrophic Risk Capacity Building team. (The event has previously gone by the name ‘Leaders Forum.’)

  This post received less attention than I thought it would, so I’m bumping it here to make it a bit more well-known that this survey summary exists. All feedback is welcome!

• michelNov 23, 2023, 11:02 AM

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  on: Memo on some ne­glected topics

  Thank you for posting this!

  I find these questions and consideration really interesting, and I could see myself experiment with researching questions of this sort for 3 months. As a relatively junior person though who may end up doing this independently, I worry about none of the thinking/​writing I’d do on one of these topics actually changing anything. Do you have any advice on making this type of research useful?

• michelNov 21, 2023, 1:15 PM

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  on: An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Strat­egy Fo­rum 2023 Summary

  Thanks for putting on this event and sharing the takeaways!

• michelNov 9, 2023, 8:14 PM

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  in reply to: Peter’s comment on: Meta Co­or­di­na­tion Fo­rum 2023: Com­mu­nity Survey

  Any plans to address these would come from the individuals or orgs working in this space. (This event wasn’t a collective decision-making body, and wasn’t aimed at creating a cross-org plan to address these—it was more about helping individuals refine their own plans).

  Re the talent development pipeline for AI safety and governance, some relevant orgs/​programs I’m aware of off the top of my head include:

  • Arkrose

  • SERI MATS

  • Constellation

  • Fellowships like AI Futures

  • Blue Dot Impact

  • AI safety uni groups like MAIA and WAISI

  • … and other programs mentioned on 80K job board and EA Opportunity Board

• michelNov 9, 2023, 8:00 PM

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  in reply to: Minh Nguyen’s comment on: Meta Co­or­di­na­tion Fo­rum 2023: Pro­ject brain­storm

  Thanks for adding these thoughts!

• michelNov 3, 2023, 11:31 PM

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  on: Meta Co­or­di­na­tion Fo­rum 2023: Com­mu­nity Survey

  A quick note to say that I’m taking some time off after publishing these posts. I’ll aim to reply to any comments from 13 Nov.

• michelNov 3, 2023, 11:30 PM

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  on: Meta Co­or­di­na­tion Fo­rum 2023: Pro­ject brain­storm

  A quick note to say that I’m taking some time off after publishing these posts. I’ll aim to reply to any comments from 13 Nov.

• michelNov 3, 2023, 11:30 PM

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  on: Meta Co­or­di­na­tion Fo­rum 2023 Pre-Event Sur­vey: Sum­mary of Results

  A quick note to say that I’m taking some time off after publishing these posts. I’ll aim to reply to any comments from 13 Nov.

EA Com­mu­nity Sur­vey (MCF 2023)

A brain­storm of meta-EA pro­jects (MCF 2023)

Key EA de­ci­sion-mak­ers on the fu­ture of EA, re­flec­tions on the past year, and more (MCF 2023)

• michelOct 27, 2023, 9:10 PM

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  on: AI safety field-build­ing sur­vey: Ta­lent needs, in­fras­truc­ture needs, and re­la­tion­ship to EA

  FYI that this is the first of a few Meta Coordination Forum survey summaries. More coming in the next two weeks!

AI safety field-build­ing sur­vey: Ta­lent needs, in­fras­truc­ture needs, and re­la­tion­ship to EA