Toby Tremlett🔹

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Hello! I’m Toby. I’m Content Manager at CEA. I work with the Online Team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You’ll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more.

Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects. You can find a bit of my own creative output on my blog, and my podcast feed.

Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Nov 2024 13:48 UTC
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in reply to: NickLaing’s comment on: Donation Election Fund Announcement: Matching, Rewards and FAQ.
I’m concerned that it will be hard to draw this one without implying that the mosquito nets are being used for fishing… stay tuned.

Toby Tremlett🔹 1 Nov 2024 12:52 UTC
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in reply to: Elliot Billingsley’s comment on: What I’d like to see during Funding Diversification Week
Thanks Elliot! Good question- it is now Funding Strategy Week.
I think the problem is that its very easy to assume people have the context that you do- so we would have assumed that people expected to see a post about Funding Diversification instead of Funding Strategy. But realistically most readers probably hadn’t memorised the name of our mini-event. I’ll post a quick take when I’ve got a minute, to make this clearer.

Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Oct 2024 13:28 UTC
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in reply to: Hans Erickson’s comment on: Open thread: October—December 2024
That’s lovely Hans! Perhaps @NickLaing might have takes on your measurement question?
Thanks for joining the EA Forum.
I’m Toby, the Content Manager for the Forum (I run events, write newsletters, and talk with authors about their work).
Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or using the Forum.

Toby Tremlett🔹 18 Oct 2024 5:55 UTC
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in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: Discussion thread: Animal Welfare vs. Global Health Debate Week
Here you go

Toby Tremlett🔹 17 Oct 2024 9:19 UTC
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in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Jason’s Shortform
Thanks for thinking about this Jason! Lots of good ideas here.

FWIW financial allocation was an attempt to get a more precise debate after several users reported the “more of a priority” framing of the AI Welfare debate as being a bit confusing.

I think it’s generally nice to be tracking something relatively unified along the X axis, but that could just be strength of agreement, as long as users agree on the meaning of the debate statement.

The season idea is cool, though I’d probably prefer to do a more spaced out season, with the debates at very least a few weeks apart. Some authors might want to contribute to multiple debates, and writing a post a week is a bit of a large ask. It’d be great to have the topics published in advance though, so that people can start thinking earlier.

Toby Tremlett🔹 15 Oct 2024 10:26 UTC
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in reply to: joko’s comment on: Discussion thread: Animal Welfare vs. Global Health Debate Week
Good question! This has been on my mind—yes, in the future we will find a way to show debate week banners after the event (had a dream about it last night- but the design in my dream was very ugly). For now, I’ll ask a dev if I can get a screenshot to put in a quick take and link here.

Toby Tremlett🔹 14 Oct 2024 9:18 UTC
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in reply to: Grayden 🔸’s comment on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
Didn’t realise I might be implying we didn’t by posting this- makes sense! Collectively, CEA does have a great network- writing a quick take was a way to cast the net a bit wider, and gauge enthusiasm.

Toby Tremlett🔹 11 Oct 2024 10:15 UTC
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in reply to: MichaelStJules’s comment on: MichaelStJules’s Shortform
Me too! The two broad categories of ideas I’ve had are basically
1. Key cause-prio debates- especially ones which have been had over many years and many posts, but haven’t really been summarised/ focused into one place (like those you list)
2. Debates about tactics/ methodology. For example: “We should invest more heavily in animal sentience research than corporate campaigns”. That’s a rough example, but the idea would be to do a debate where people would have to get fairly fine-grained in cost-effectiveness thinking before they could vote. I doubt we would get as much engagement, but engagement may be particularly valuable if the question is well posed.

Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Oct 2024 18:15 UTC
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in reply to: OscarD🔸’s comment on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
This was suggested in CEA slack as well- It’ll be on the list of possible improvements (I think it’s a good idea).

Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Oct 2024 13:01 UTC
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in reply to: Milena Canzler🔸’s comment on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
An Ask Me Anything event- sorry for jargon!

Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Oct 2024 12:23 UTC
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in reply to: Greg Kawere’s comment on: Open thread: October—December 2024
Hey Greg!
Welcome to the EA Forum :)
I’m Toby, the Content Manager for the Forum (I run events, write newsletters, and talk with authors about their work).
Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or using the Forum.

Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Oct 2024 12:23 UTC
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in reply to: André Santos 🔸’s comment on: Open thread: October—December 2024
Hey Andre!
Welcome to the EA Forum :) I’m Toby, the Content Manager for the Forum (I run events, write newsletters, and talk with authors about their work). Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or using the Forum.

Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Oct 2024 9:44 UTC
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in reply to: Keyvan Mostafavi’s comment on: Keyvan Mostafavi’s Quick takes
I really appreciate comments like this- thanks for posting it.

In general, I like the idea of letting people know when you value your writing. It encourages more of the content you’d like to see + most authors get complements rarely, so it’s often greatly appreciated.

Toby Tremlett🔹 10 Oct 2024 6:56 UTC
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on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
With the debate week discussion thread getting so long, it is now a community service (even more than usual) to sort the comments by “new” and upvote/ downvote or comment. Let’s not let quality content get buried!

Toby Tremlett🔹 9 Oct 2024 9:55 UTC
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on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
Anyone know any Earn-To-Givers who might be interested in participating in an AMA during Giving Season? If a few are interested, it might be fun to experiment with an AMA panel, where Forum users ask questions, and any of the AMA co-authors can respond/ co-authors can disagree.

Why? Giving Season is, in my opinion, a really great time to highlight the earn-to-give work which is ongoing all year, but is generally under-celebrated by the EA community. + Earn-to-givers might have good insights on how to pick donation targets during the donation election, and Giving Season more generally.

Toby Tremlett🔹 8 Oct 2024 11:33 UTC
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in reply to: Chris Leong’s comment on: Discussion thread: Animal Welfare vs. Global Health Debate Week
That’s helpful- thanks! Should be an easy one to fix next time.

Toby Tremlett🔹 7 Oct 2024 15:50 UTC
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in reply to: Lizka’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform
Update: this user returned to the Forum yesterday to re-post the same piece. I’ve banned that account as well. Bans affect the user, not the account.

Toby Tremlett🔹 7 Oct 2024 12:28 UTC
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on: Announcing my departure from CEA (& sharing assorted notes)
Thanks for all your great work Lizka. I learned a lot working with you- especially from the example of focus and dedication that you gave. I’d love to get a chance to work together again in the future.
Also- great post!

Toby Tremlett🔹 7 Oct 2024 9:04 UTC
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on: Discussion thread: Animal Welfare vs. Global Health Debate Week
I currently agree pretty strongly, because the basic case for the quantity of animal suffering in factory farms is very strong. My uncertainty is over the tractability, and I hope to learn more about that, and adjust my vote, during the week.

Toby Tremlett🔹 4 Oct 2024 11:43 UTC
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on: tobytrem’s Quick takes
The Debate Week banner is under construction… get your takes ready for Monday morning!
In the mean time, you can brush up on the reading list in the announcement post, or respond to this post with ideas for posts you’d like to see next week.