Sorry for the double-post, figured it would be better to sign up with my real name

Hi, I'm Ales, a second-year student at Harvard College and a prospective economics major interested in too many things.

I'm currently one of the co-presidents of Harvard College Effective Altruism [1], in which position I succeeded Ben Kuhn. We are currently working on making HCEA an established organization and it seems like we're getting near the critical mass of dedicated people to work on some really great projects. We're also helping to found a group at MIT and Tufts, and our organizers volunteer for the Future of Life Institute.

[1] http://harvardea.org/

[2] http://thefutureoflife.org/

I'm Ben – I've been earning to give as a software developer for the past few years, and recently started a company so I can hopefully donate even more!

I'm Daniel, a university student from Canberra studying artificial intelligence. I'm interested in going into FAI-related research.

I didn't make an introduction comment in the last post, so I suppose I should do one here. I'm David Barry -- one of the migrated posts from the old blog is authored by the user David_Barry, but I signed up my usual Internet handle before thinking about the account that had already been made for me. I live in Perth, where I moved for work earlier this year, having previously lived in Brisbane.

I always used to think I'd become a physicist one day, but what was supposed to be a PhD went badly for too long and I escaped with a Master's. I've now been working in mining geostatistics for almost six years, and donating a chunk of my salary to GiveWell-recommended charities for five years.

I don't do much actively in EA apart from the donations I send out roughly once a month. Occasionally I'll knuckle down and work through cost-effectiveness calcu-guestimates, but mostly I just like skimming the EA Facebook group and this forum, occasionally chipping in.

I'm Ruthie. I'm a software engineer. I'm a GWWC member, most interested in global poverty alleviation. I keep a blog, mostly not related to EA at ruthiebyers.com. I also do a lot of social dancing and I play fiddle.

I'm John, and I help organize the Seattle EA meetup group! I also think Bayesian statistics is the bees knees. I find it pretty fun to help EAs improve their fashion skills. Also, I love to dance to electronic dance music.

I'm Gina, a software & applications engineer in Madison, WI. I'm also on the board of directors for a local animal rights & environmental protection group, Alliance for Animals and the Environment. Random fact: I used to do synchronized swimming in high school!

My name is Tom and I dislike piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.

Hi everyone, I'm Haydn. I used to work at the Centre for Effective Altruism, now I work for a Member of the UK Parliament. Message me if you're interested in politics and EA.

I'm Gregory. I work as a junior doctor. I have done some work for GWWC and 80k, and I try to give a significant fraction of my income to charity. I'm reluctant to call myself an 'Effective Altruist', as I'm broadly ineffective and selfish. Enjoy life!

The name of this forum should be "Emma".

Hello, Boris Yakubchik here. 29 year old, residing in New Jersey

Finished Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA) with a BA in Mathematics, MA in Education. Started a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology. Joined Giving What We Can a few months after it started. Quit my Ph.D. program 2 years aiming to devote more time to EA stuff (I wrote about it here). Worked as a math teacher in high school, first year giving 50%. Subsequent years worked only part-time so went back to giving at least 10%. Currently a full-time math tutor, still aiming to follow the Earning to Give (E2G) strategy.

I helped run the Rutgers chapter of GWWC; few days ago we celebrated our 4th anniversary. I made a 5-minute video about members of GWWC. I gave a TEDxRutgers talk last year. I was interviewed by Peter Hurford, read here. I've read extensively and would love to give my recommendations.

Feel free to contact me, I'd love to help out a good project if I have the skills and can find the time :)

Hi everyone, I'm Phil. I have a background in engineering and biology, and am currently considering career paths. I started out working on infrastructure projects in the developing world as an undergrad, and then began to learn about development economics more broadly. This led me to read about J-PAL, IPA and then eventually to GiveWell, GWWC and 80,000 hours. My background makes me most interested in global health and development, but I also find arguments for existential risk mitigation and effective animal altruism pretty convincing. In general, I find it hard to find a group of people thinking along the same lines as effective altruists, so I'm glad to find this forum!

Should we use this comment thread, or this one (http://effective-altruism.com/ea/7r/introduce_yourself/) ?