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Agreed!! Glad you enjoyed.
After EAGxBerkeley, I think there needs to be a lot more emphasis on the basics of personal finance, particularly for student groups and other young EAs.
EAs have different financial needs. Balancing giving and saving is much less stressful if you have a reasoned plan about how to do so. I imagine it’d be pretty easy to get bad advice from a financial counselor who isn’t familiar with philanthropic giving.
At the EA Software Engineering meet, earning to give came up, so we talked about some slightly advanced financial strategies. In the US, donating appreciated assets is the best strategy for tax advantaged giving. Aaron Hamlin has some great resources on how to set up a donor advised fund (DAF) to do this. I recommend the following:
Read his articles on philanthropy, especially Practical Philanthropic Giving, Planned Giving For Everyone, and Donor-Advised Funds
Check out Tax-Efficient & Effective Philanthropy (talk, slides)
Thanks, Elika — glad you think the event added value!
Thanks for coming, Constance!
Nice — this seems ambitious, I really like this idea.
Maybe you can start a study group in GatherTown to continue this virtually as well. I’m sure you’d get takers from other folks interested in ML research.
This is an awesome way for nontechnical attendees to contribute — thanks for this, Jehan.
Thanks for the project submission, Max
Thank you for providing this outline, plex. I hope we get good engagement with this project.
I will try to read everyone’s comments and the related articles that have been shared. I haven’t yet, but I’m going on a trip today — I may have time on the way.
To be clear: I am against utilitarianism. It is not my personal value system. It seems like an SBF-type-figure could justify any action if the lives of trillions of future people are in the balance.
The utilitarians who aren’t taking radical actions to achieve their ends just have a failure of imagination and ambition relative to SBF.
The situation at FTX is illustrative of a central flaw in utilitarianism. When you start thinking the ends justify the means, anything becomes justifiable.
Trust is so important. Doing the right thing is so important.
I don’t really know what else to say.
This is a great high impact project that should be easy to knock out in a day!! Thanks for the submission, Dony 🙌
Watching.
Nice!! Really looking forward to the debrief from this event, Esben. Thanks for organizing!
Also relevant: https://aisafetyideas.com/
This is wonderful, thank you very much for the thorough write up, Esben. I wonder if you have any lessons learned regarding the logistics of the hackathon, particularly the GatherTown aspect?
Wow, nothing helpful to add, just wanted to say think you for writing!! These tips will be so helpful in prepping for this event: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BL8Rny4hBgDvLsjci/hackathon-on-mon-12-5-to-follow-eagxberkeley
☝️ if you guys have any thoughts for potential software engineering projects to do good better, please feel free to add them as a comment to the post.
Thinking about this further —
Couldn’t this be done via a Google Sheet?
First tab — instructions for interested participants
Second tab — prospective mentees enter their goals and contact info
Third tab — prospective mentors enter their areas of expertise and provide a Calendly link
(Of course, people could sign up on both the mentors + mentees tab if they wanted — we all need / can offer help in different areas)
There could be an associated Slack or Discord for people to post their learnings / requests for mentorship / etc.
Happy to have someone (a non-technical person maybe?) set this up during the Hackathon if they feel so inspired.
Definitely sounds like a worthy project — thanks for contributing, David
Hi there cdenq,
Thanks so much for this question!! afaik, this is one of the first EA Hackathons of this sort, so we don’t have a list of historical projects.
I wouldn’t worry too much about setting the constraint of what you can accomplish in 5-6 hours (accounting for intro talks, socialization, and lunch here). Ideally, devs will continue to work on their contributions after the Hackathon ends.
If there’s interest, I was thinking we may do a regular (e.g., once a month) coworking session on Gathertown to push this projects forward.
Let me know what other questions you have.
Neat — thanks for the links, Josh