Peter McIntyre

2024 re­view, 2025 plans, and fund­ing gap for Non-Trivial

Non-Triv­ial is hiring a Head of Outreach and Communications

• Peter McIntyre 27 Mar 2024 12:45 UTC

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  in reply to: NickLaing’s comment on: Sum­mer pro­gram for high school­ers – Guest speak­ers Yoshua Ben­gio and Peter Singer

  Thanks for saying! Let me know if you invent a time machine – I’ve got some ideas

Sum­mer pro­gram for high school­ers – Guest speak­ers Yoshua Ben­gio and Peter Singer

• Peter McIntyre 17 Jan 2024 8:45 UTC

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  on: Meta Char­ity Fun­ders: Sum­mary of Our First Grant Round and Path Forward

  It’s great to see more funding for meta initiatives, so thank you for your work on the MCF!

  and we will welcome similar applications as the last round, especially “giving multipliers” that help grow the pie of effective donations.

  Could you say more about your circle’s reasons for focusing on giving multipliers? I’d be especially curious about why you might focus on donations instead of multiplying other resources like human capital.

  (Maybe answered in the first question) What is the object-level cause prioritisation of circle funders?

• Peter McIntyre 17 Oct 2023 14:52 UTC

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  in reply to: NunoSempere’s comment on: Two po­si­tions at Non-Triv­ial: En­able young peo­ple to tackle the world’s most press­ing problems

  Thanks, very kind of you to say!

Two po­si­tions at Non-Triv­ial: En­able young peo­ple to tackle the world’s most press­ing problems

• Peter McIntyre 11 Jan 2023 8:09 UTC

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  in reply to: Jeroen Willems🔸’s comment on: Non-triv­ial Fel­low­ship: start an im­pact­ful pro­ject with €500 and ex­pert guidance

  Thanks! I’ll pass that on to our talented designer, CSJ.

Non-Triv­ial Fel­low­ship: $500 schol­ar­ship for high school stu­dents to start solv­ing press­ing problems

• Peter McIntyre 27 Aug 2022 14:59 UTC

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  in reply to: freedomandutility’s comment on: Driv­ing Ed­u­ca­tion on EA Topics Through Khan Academy

  Thanks! I’m the author of most of the concepts on Conceptually, and also the founder of Non-trivial. I’ll send you an email. :)

• Peter McIntyre 15 Jul 2022 11:14 UTC

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  in reply to: Owen Cotton-Barratt’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  I think I’d find them helpful, though it’s hard to say for sure. As one data point, I’m currently at an extremely basic level of learning javascript, and I find Codecademy’s quizzes useful (as well as the project-based learning, which might be cool to replicate for EA but would take a lot of work).

  FWIW the quizzes are by far our most popular feature amongst users I’m doing interviews with.

  Re: making them optional. It’s possible this would be better, but if a user wants to skip a quiz they can very quickly give a dummy answer, which is an ok user experience so I’m not prioritising looking into it.

  One way I’m worried we’re getting things wrong is getting the question difficulty right for more users. I think the early lessons might have questions that are too easy, and later lessons don’t build enough on each other, so there’s no scaffolding. I think we’ll prioritise working on that soon. Another feature I’m hoping to build is more quiz interaction types (from cloze and drag-and-drop on the faster end to build to open text grading on the more difficult end).

• Peter McIntyre 14 Jul 2022 8:56 UTC

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  in reply to: Yonatan Cale’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  I really like this framing and we’ll update it to something like this soon. Thanks!

• Peter McIntyre 14 Jul 2022 8:54 UTC

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  in reply to: Viha Kedia’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  Thanks, Viha – that’s very kind of you to say. Reach out if you have any thoughts on how we could improve the course :)

• Peter McIntyre 14 Jul 2022 8:50 UTC

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  in reply to: Erich_Grunewald 🔸’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  The reason why we ask for sign in is that it allows the user to track their progress through the course, one of our user’s favourite features. Learning about EA can at be an overwhelming sea of links, and we wanted to give users a clearer way to track their progress through it.

  The other reason is that it’s on our backlog to consider, but didn’t get to it in time for launch.

• Peter McIntyre 14 Jul 2022 8:46 UTC

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  in reply to: Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  I’d be curious too. We haven’t had enough traffic to A/​b test anything yet 😅

• Peter McIntyre 14 Jul 2022 8:45 UTC

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  in reply to: Zach Stein-Perlman’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  I found this thread helpful, thanks everyone. I’ll pass it on to our designer.

• Peter McIntyre 14 Jul 2022 8:44 UTC

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  in reply to: Rebecca’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  To be totally honest, I didn’t actually check and just assumed. However, my read of the style guides is that you don’t capitalise the second word in hyphenated titles if there’s a prefix (source).

• Peter McIntyre 12 Jul 2022 18:02 UTC

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  in reply to: Max_Daniel’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  Yeah I agree that some talented teenagers don’t want to engage with material targeted at their age group.

  I try not to use the word teenager on the site (there may be some old references), and write basically as if it’s for me at my current age without assuming the knowledge I have.

  But I’m not at all sure we’ve got the tone and design right – I’d appreciate hearing if anyone finds any examples on the site of something that seems condescending, belittling, or unempowering etc..

• Peter McIntyre 12 Jul 2022 17:45 UTC

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  in reply to: Kirsten’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  Ah makes sense! That was an old feedback form we had – I expect few users will discover this in the future.

• Peter McIntyre 12 Jul 2022 16:45 UTC

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  in reply to: Kirsten’s comment on: An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

  Thanks! That’s helpful. Also tested the link from the contact us page. I’ll tentatively declare it fixed until I hear another report.