Congrats on the new role! I'd be keen to hear about your strategy for the forum when you've had time to formulate it.
(This is one place where I disagree with the LW team that tends to deemphasise meta-posts. I agree that it's important to prevent a forum from being overrun with meta, but I believe that it's important to very occasionally promote certain meta-posts in order to create the sense of a community. In particular, I'm in favour of occasionally promoting posts that provide the community with a sense of where things are headed and allow input into major decisions).
Congrats! Really exciting to a) see how much skill development and progress you've made in the <1 year that I've known you, and b) the future of the Forum now that you're at the helm!
I was curious, MetaCulus and similar sites have been really useful recently for many EA's. Would there be anyway to create a similar system on EA here to do group sourced elicitation for possible ethical outcomes? It might super power the EA Forum's ability to make rational comments!
Hi Lizka! Thank you for the great introduction of yourself, would be great to communicate and discuss lots of interesting/important topics here on EA forum!
I’m the new Content Specialist at the Centre for Effective Altruism, taking over from Aaron Gertler.
I’m taking on a lot of his old responsibilities, including running the non-engineering side of the EA Forum, and you can reach out to me if you have any questions about or issues with the Forum.
More below.
My name is Lizka.[1] You may have seen someofmyoldposts. You’ll likely be seeing me post more frequently now. :)
I have yet to meet another “Lizka” in the EA community. Please let me know if your name is also Lizka! (And as a minor point of clarification, my name is pronounced: "lease-kah.")
I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
Summary
Over the course of a year, the Fieldshaper program develops you into a field-leading grantmaker. You’ll steward $1,000,000 in grant capital, receive a $125,000 annual stipend, and deploy that capital within a sub-field of one of three key areas (farmed animals, global health, or philanthropic infrastructure); building the track record to become a grantmaker who can shape a field.
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* Title: Grantmak...
Congrats! I'm excited for you and for the future of our Forum!
Thanks:)