Advocating and mobilising for high-impact initiatives to reduce suffering in the near and distant future: https://compassionate-future.org/
Most passionate about Compassionate Genomics.
Feel free to schedule a call with me here:
https://calendly.com/compassionate-future/30-minutes-meeting
Thx! Fixed it
If some of the points made resonate with you, and you want to delve deeper, the up-cumming Compassionate Future Summit, 27-31 August in Berlin, might just be the place for you! Reach out if you’d like to learn more :)
Two more contributor highlights 🎉
FYI: To facilitate travel planing I added the following details:
Arrival day (Thursday): Registration opens at 10 am. Informal games and community-building activities will run throughout the day until the official opening session at 3 pm.
Sunday: The impact-focused program will run until dinner (6 pm). After dinner, we will have the closing session and continue with more community focused activities into the evening.
Departure day (Monday): We’ll share breakfast and clean up together Monday morning. Check-out is by 10 am.
Attendees are warmly encouraged to spend the day (or more) in Berlin together after the summit. It’s a great opportunity to keep connections and conversations going before heading home. We’ll be using Slack well in advance of the event to coordinate logistics, travel, and anything else that comes up.
Hey everybody,
📣 Application deadline now extended to Friday, 07 August 2026!
To all those who have RSVPed, please also fill out the application form, if you haven’t done so already.
Note, new this year is our Content Contribution Form CFI 2026, with our in-depth impact questionnaire to be answered by all participants.
As inspiration, content highlights from last year:
Screwworm-Free Future · WHO Youth Council work & International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War · Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Tyranny—How Psychological Wounds Shape History · Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering—Insights from OPIS’s Suffering Survey · Scalable Suffering-reduction Tech to Benefit Sentient Beings · Sentient Futures Strategy Session · Machine Learning: Mental Health Pre-screening · Space Governance and Preventing Cosmic Suffering
Excited to contribute to ambitious projects aimed at preventing suffering at scale?
Then we’d love to hear from you! 🤗
A selection of this year’s content highlights so far:
Also, subscribe to our Luma calendar to see all upcoming events:
https://luma.com/Compassionate-Impact
Hi Richie, thanks for your interest and question!
It was indeed not easy to label this event.
At its core, it’s an accountability & working retreat. Participants prepare their contributions thoroughly in advance, and the summit itself becomes a milestone—a deadline and a reward for that work, and a new jumping off point after being able to get feedback and new inspiration from presenting and discussing their work and from learning and engaging with other people’s work.
And it’s not that everyone has to have a project in the classical sense. Attendees will work on their contribution to impact, while acknowledging their different stages in their development and ways they want to contribute. They can work out and present new education and career strategies, earning-to-give and effective giving strategies, or project ideas and project developments.
I drew from many different event formats, keeping only the elements that best stimulate impact-driven development while creating a nurturing environment for sustainable ambition and growth.
I moved away from labels like ‘conference,’ ‘retreat,’ or ‘unconference’, and never considered ‘hackathon’ because each carries connotations that don’t quite fit. It’s not a programming event, conferences feel less nurturing and save to experiment, while retreats and unconferences in my experience don’t focus enough on impact. Community and fun absolutely have a place at the summit, but in service of the work, not instead of it.
I hope that answers your question. :)
So, caring more about the virtue of being truthful than the utilitarian ambition to create impact?(Sorry, not really against your point, but when the culture demands not being truthful to succeed, you basically doom the truthful ones to fail. That’s, why I disagree that the burden should lie on the conscious of the applicant, but the system needs adaptation to ensure it reinforces truthfulness and epistemic humility.)
Hi everyone, it was a wonderful gathering yesterday! Thank you, everybody, for your interest, enthusiasm and support!
Here are the slides from the event: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k8RKMYNEdAuARPph8XY2RerRldtul150vfm3wdsFZcA/edit?slide=id.p4#slide=id.p4
Hi everyone, just an information, we also have 5 registrations via meetup. So we’re almost full, as registration limit is 25 attendees ;)
Exciting announcement/discovery 🚀:
Martin and some other EAs just built Compass, a platform for intentional connections. It has detailed profiles, keyword search, search alerts, and a lot of other powerful tools for efficient searches. It’s free and open source. Join the community to shape the platform!
Compass Platform: https://www.compassmeet.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/8Vd7jzqjun
Exciting announcement/discovery 🚀:
Martin and some other EAs just built Compass, a platform for intentional connections. It has detailed profiles, keyword search, search alerts, and a lot of other powerful tools for efficient searches. It’s free and open source. Join the community to shape the platform!
Compass Platform: https://www.compassmeet.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/8Vd7jzqjun
I think you mistakenly equal actually doing good vs. not doing harm. Like being vegan is not doing good. It’s just not contributing to the harm. And I agree, not contributing to harm is not good enough. And I understand in the end the numbers are important.
But as fish_in_a_firetruck already pointed out, the psychological ripple effects get ignored, not only for forming habits of doing good, but also of not doing harm. Is a person who saved 10 lives free to kill 9 lives and still deserve to be called equally good as the one who only managed to save one live in the first place but tries not to harm anyone? People normalize doing harm when you discount the difference between doing good vs. not doing harm.
I agree not to be perfectionist before putting something out there. But I do believe one should not only measure the theoretical validity of an argument but more so the impact it has on others beyond what you actually try to say—like the risk of how these arguments can be twisted to justify doing harm. I myself have my hot takes on controversial topic—where this is a big issue.
Your “”This will lead to value drift” Track your actual impact. Pick both leading indicators (effort) and lagging ones (outcomes). If outcomes don’t improve, pivot.” Is brushing this off too quickly and too easily, as if that fixes the risk.
I would love to see a republishing with flashing out the risks and objections, to mitigate those risks while keeping the very important points you are making.
Just sharing my quick takes on how to navigate cluelessness with a rather long-term strategy here. It doesn’t get to predictability land but to enough insight to move forward carefully despite vast uncertainties.