I create effective, scalable educational programs. I want them to help people make better decisions, become more empathic, and more effective in their work (esp. their research). I’m an awarded educator, receiving national awards, international senior fellowships, and the highest honour from my university. I also have a strong academic research background: I’m Chief Investigator on $3.7m of competitive, industry-partnered research grants; have published in the Scimago #1 journals for psychology, applied psychology, ageing, paediatrics, education (three times, see #1, #2, #3), and sport science (twice, see #1 & #2); and my work is cited almost 4x the world average (according to InCites; all data as of June 2021).
Michael Noetel
We all teach: here’s how to do it better
[Question] Should EA ‘communities’ be ‘professional associations’?
PhD Scholarships for EA projects in psychology, health, IIDM, or education
Introducing the Effective Altruism Australia Environment Fund (EAAE)
Seeking feedback on a MOOC draft plan: Skills for Doing Good Better
Just wanted to +1 the appreciation for all your work over the years JJ
Could Nonlinear Library or Perrin Walker do audio versions of these articles? 🙏
As a social scientist, these lists are very helpful, thank you team. It’s useful to be able to point students and colleagues to open questions that are immediately decision-relevant.
Hanania gives some interesting arguments for why here: https://www.richardhanania.com/p/effective-altruism-thinks-youre-hitler
3 months on, and this has become one of the most valuable EA/Alignment/Rationality dissemination innovations I’ve seen. Has replaced almost all my more vapid listening. Would get through an extra 10-20 hours of content a week. Thank you Nonlinear/Kat/Emerson
I really like this framing Gideon. It seems aligned with CEA’s Core EA principles. I’d love EA to be better at helping people learn skills. One of our working drafts for an EA MOOC focuses more on the those core principles and skills. Is something like this work-in-progress closer to what you had in mind?
Help to Shape Australia’s Plan to Prevent Pandemics
People new to EA might not know they can get the book for free by signing up to the 80,000 hours mailing list, and it’s also available on Audible
Great initiative @MichaelA. I’m not sure what a ‘sequence’ does, but I assume this means there’ll be a series of related posts to follow, is that right?
Thanks Seb. I’m not that surprised—public surveys in the Existential Risk Persuasion tournament were pretty high (5% for AI). I don’t think most people are good at calibrating probabilities between 0.001% and 10% (myself included).
I don’t have strong hypotheses why people ‘mostly support’ something they also want treated with such care. My weak ones would be ‘people like technology but when asked about what the government should do, want them to keep them safe (remove biggest threats).’ For example, Australians support getting nuclear submarines but also support the ban on nuclear weapons. I don’t necessarily see this as a contradiction—”keep me safe” priorities would lead to both. I don’t know if our answers would have changed if we made the trade-offs more salient (e.g., here’s what you’d lose if we took this policy action prioritising risks). Interested in suggestions for how we could do that better.
It’d be easy for us to run in other countries. We’ll put the data and code online soon. If someone’s keen to run the ‘get it in the hands of people who want to use it’ piece, we could also do the ‘run the survey and make a technical report one’. It’s all in R so the marginal cost of another country is low. We’d need access to census data to do the statistical adjustment to estimate population agreement (but that should be easy to see if possible).
Effective Altruism Australia Environment x EA UQ: Supporting Effective Climate Charities from Australia
Done
Whatever happens with the discussions about copyright, I really hope this continues to exist. I listened to six forum posts at 5am today while walking a baby around to sleep… very good for parental mental health