Patrick Liu

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Patrick Liu 8 Nov 2024 18:27 UTC
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on: Patrick Liu’s Shortform
A short while ago, there was a contest on the forum to write about the difference between Knowledge and Wisdom. Of course it’s been done before! This is a quick video sharing one perspective -

Patrick Liu 6 Nov 2024 19:08 UTC
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Celebrating your users—this just popped into my inbox celebrating my double digit meetings using the Calendly tool. It highlights a great practice of understanding your users’ journey and celebrating the key moments that matter. Onboarding and offboarding are key moments, but so are points that can transition them to a power user. From forum stalker to contributor. This allows me to reflect on how good an experience I’ve had that I keep using this tool (make sure it is good), and as a next step suggests tips on how I can use the tool more pervasively to get more embedded in the ecosystem. So think about how you can celebrate your users when community building.

Patrick Liu 4 Nov 2024 15:19 UTC
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“Freedom has come to mean choice. It has less to do with the human spirit than with different brands of deodorant...The “Market” is a deterritorialized space where faceless corporations do business, including buying and selling “futures.” -Arundhati Roy

Patrick Liu 27 Oct 2024 19:25 UTC
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A plea to EAG Boston presenter...

Some presentations stick with you after EAG. Some evaporate as you leave the room. While there is a lot of amazing content at EAG, I’d like to seem more consideration on how to deliver a message that sticks. From my experience presenting to the firing squad, here are some tricks of the trade -
1) Figure out who is your primary audience you are speaking to. If you try to cover everyone, you will usually lose everyone.
2) Narrow down to the one message you want them to walk away with.
3) Consider tying your main message to a Call to Action.
4) For an hour slot, consider the 10/20/30 rule.
10 slides—less is more;
20 minute talk (+ 20 minutes to fix the internet, A/V gear, etc + 20 minute buffer for audience interjections);
30 pt font—less is more;
5) Max 7 bullets per slide
6) DO NOT read the slide
7) Be authentic, for your audience to buy your message they need to buy into you
If you prefer to hear it from an ex-Apple evangelist saying it more charmingly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51TLge2peLc

Patrick Liu 25 Jul 2024 15:10 UTC
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on: Peter Singer AMA (July 30th)
Hi Peter,
In Famine, Affluence, and Morality, you put forth a position that it should not matter if we help the child who is a neighbor or the child ten thousand miles away. Is this a strongly held conclusion or a position you want people to continue to debate?
You mentioned you were fortunate enough that Princeton allows you to teach one semester a year and so you have 8 months to spend with your grandkids. One could argue there are many more children in Trenton, NJ that would benefit from your mentorship. This is where I disagree with consequentialism. I believe we should care a lot about the people close to us and collectively we can make sure everyone is cared for.

Thanks for your hard work!

Patrick Liu 4 Jun 2024 18:42 UTC
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on: Patrick Liu’s Shortform
On the automation of wisdom -
Norman Douglas:
“There are some things you can’t learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.”

Patrick Liu 23 Apr 2024 19:11 UTC
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on: EA Data Science—Community call /Speed Friending
Unfortunately there were some technical difficulties with the Zoom link. Thanks for those who found the new room. Also keep the conversation going on our slack channel—https://join.slack.com/share/enQtNzAyMjc2MTYzNTUyMS01NTg3MmVjODc3ZDk4ZTlkNzg3ZmMyNmE0NTc3ZjdjMWJiMWI0ODliOTJkYTYyOWNmNDhkZWU5NGIyMTVhYWEw (expires in 14 days).

Patrick Liu 23 Apr 2024 18:00 UTC
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on: EA Data Science—Community call /Speed Friending
I’m getting an error from the zoom link. Please use this room instead: https://meet.google.com/avh-vdvw-wub

Patrick Liu 10 Apr 2024 15:11 UTC
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on: EA Data Science: JFI presentation and Q&A
Update, call recap posted here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DAtAqAKuThj5kL3Kn/ea-data-science-community-call-with-jfi-march-26-2024-recap

Patrick Liu 8 Apr 2024 13:51 UTC
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on: EA Organization Updates: March 2024
Meta question—I volunteer with EA Data Science so this content is useful to me. How does subscribing to a tag work exactly? It seems like it just make posts more likely to appear on my frontpage or is there a more reliable way to check for updates? I could just keep checking the tag or try wrestling with some RSS feed or similar, but I’d like to know if there is a more native way of getting updates.

Patrick Liu 5 Apr 2024 12:06 UTC
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on: Announcing new org: 90,000 Hours (April Fools’ post)
⁸⁰⁄₂₀ rule. Spend 18K hours to get 64K hours of impact ;)

Patrick Liu 27 Mar 2024 2:40 UTC
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in reply to: Devin Kalish’s comment on: [Draft Amnesty Week] Appendices: “Some Observations on Alcoholism”
Yes, let me try this rephrase. The average American who currently drinks casually in social settings may be behaving so because they think everyone else is drinking and this would be considered normal behavior. Sharing a statistic that nearly half of American do not drink regularly (as defined by the CDC) shows that it is also normal behavior to go out and not drink.
I think this is a positive reinforcement for not drinking. On the other hand, I would say warning people they should not drink because there is a 14% chance they may become an alcoholic is negative reinforcement, which could lead to backlash or otherwise be questioned. It could be questioned if occasional drinking is the sole and direct cause for alcoholism. Rather, most cases probably arise from a combination of drinking and genetic prevalence, family influence, social norms, body type, stress triggers, and other factors. This could open the door to people deciding such scenarios don’t apply to them.

Patrick Liu 20 Mar 2024 15:02 UTC
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in reply to: Arepo’s comment on: EA Data Science: JFI presentation and Q&A
Thanks for your interest Arepo! We will try to make future events more flexible to accommodate our global audience. For this current event, we needed a time that fit the presenters. We hope to have a recording online after the event and have them in the slack to answer follow up questions.

Patrick Liu 16 Mar 2024 18:20 UTC
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in reply to: Devin Kalish’s comment on: [Draft Amnesty Week] Appendices: “Some Observations on Alcoholism”
What stat are you working off of for people who become alcoholics?

I meant for the stat of non-drinkers to be a positive signal for the general population to choose not to drink and still feel normie. I believe there are hopeful stories of people beating alcoholism through behavior change such as moving to a new place where their identity is not tied to drinking. So I feel like stats don’t tell us everything.

Patrick Liu 15 Mar 2024 17:41 UTC
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on: Is there a lunchclub for EA?
Just came across this but if you are still looking, some of the EA slacks have a virtual coffee channel that uses a bot to match people up. Also, there is probably opportunity for interest based events to be organized.

Patrick Liu 15 Mar 2024 15:47 UTC
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on: [Draft Amnesty Week] Appendices: “Some Observations on Alcoholism”
Hey Devin, seems maybe your topic is the broader issue of addiction??

As part of the argument to advocate for people not to drink, maybe you want to point out the norm that about half of Americans don’t drink alcohol normally (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/alcohol.htm) as opposed to this projection by movies and advertising that makes it seem like people drink every day.

Patrick Liu 22 Sep 2023 16:11 UTC
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on: Apply Now: EAGxVirtual (17-19 November)
Is there a cap on the number of participants? If I am already able to go to a physical EAG will I be taking a spot away from someone else in the virtual conference?

Patrick Liu 20 Sep 2023 15:18 UTC
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on: How WHO estimate malaria cases and mortality
Hi Scott, do you know where we can get the data sets to add it to the EA Data Science repo?

Patrick Liu 29 Aug 2023 1:16 UTC
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on: GPT-powered EA/LW weekly summary
Hey cool, I tried doing something similar throwing in links to NotionAI, telling it to turn the text into a table, and then prompting a column for a summary. NotionAI is about $10/month and your API calls were around $5. Do you think at some point in scale it might be cheaper to use notion? Then maybe you can get adhoc table filtering for free?

Patrick Liu 21 Aug 2023 20:07 UTC
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in reply to: Tony Barrett’s comment on: What is Operations Management?
Right, other ways I’ve heard this described is operations is Business as Usual (BAU) and projects have a start date and end date. I’ve seen this important distinction when it comes to budgeting as BAU will be funded first with a certain % uplift of last year’s spend. Project costs tend to be more of a stab in the dark as it will be something that hasn’t been done in this iteration before (e.g. this location or population segment) and whatever will fit in the remaining budget plays a large selection factor.
Now programs....that’s like having your cake and eating it too.