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smk
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I can’t think of anyone better suited to lead this transition than Ben. Really excited about this. And welcome the change of tone!
This seems like an interesting project!
A case for ”quantifiable altruism” as a better name than “effective altruism” in retrospect: https://twitter.com/esyudkowsky/status/1616187567841632259?s=46&t=e0dDZKUej1AFmYDbprPcSQ by Yudkowsky.
TBH I see nothing wrong with this, as in it makes sense to me. Happy to hear more thoughts.
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This seems quite hand-wavy and I’m skeptical of it. Could you give an example where “we” have ignored the experts? And when you say experts, you probably refer to expert reasoning or scientific consensus and not appeals to authority.
Your statement gained a lot of upvotes but “EA ignores expoerts” just fits the prevailing narrative too well but I haven’t seen any examples of it. Happy to update if I find one.
Thanks for your reply. I agree with this.
To answer my own question somewhat, I found this post which listed these summer internships:
CERI Summer Research Fellowship 2022: announced March 2022 Effective Self-Help Internship 2022: announced February 2022
CHERI Summer Internship 2022: deadline March 2022 (not sure when announced)
ARC hiring round (includes intern opportunities): announced December 2021
PIBBS Summer Research Fellowship: announced December 2021
Redwood hiring round (includes intern opportunities): announced November 2021
SERI Summer Internship 2021: they seem to do rolling admissions which can start early
However, they appear to be quite US-centric.
This will be unpopular here, but these calls for public flagellation of “EA leaders” amounts to nothing more than scapegoating and trying to direct general disappointment to someone, even though it’s not the right people.
Yes it’s obviously interesting to speculate about who knew what, but no amount of “institutional reform” can change these things.
Also, this post has quite a conspiratorial tone which strikes me as unhelpful and not particularly truth seeking.