Come to think of it, this sounds less feasible but some sort of comparative advantage calculator (intending to do exactly what you describe in your edit but compared against the average EA) sounds like it could be useful, if difficult to achieve.
Will: Has 80k or someone else considered writing up a profile of the typical EA in the scenario you note (early career, willing to choose just about any career option if it maximizes good) to give people a better understanding of what standard we should be comparing ourselves to when assessing our comparative advantage? I can see this being particularly useful for people with many good options who don't know where to go. From what I see, most people I've talked to seem to be relying on informal conversations and intuitions about their peers that might easi...
I just received an email from the AMF that made me really happy: that by donating more than half of my research stipend this summer to various EA charities, I've moved 312 insecticidal nets to serve around 562 people. Somehow it feels more real to actually know the numbers :) I've also been writing more about EA things - I wrote an article about this summer online, which seemed to be pretty well received around my social circles. Hopefully I inspired some people to think more about their own donations.
That seems like a good idea! I'll keep the posts on this forum here for posterity but I'll move everything to facebook in a bit / post on .impact. Thanks for pointing me to those resources!
Hmm, okay. I appreciate your thoughts - thank you very much for sharing them. I really appreciate it. I'd vastly prefer if other people also weighed in on this because I don't have any formal expertise on any of these issues, just saw an opportunity to help and took it. I also want to stress that I don't own the page and you should feel free to jump in and make changes you feel strongly about - that's the whole point of decentralized control. That being said, some thoughts:
...One risk is that of increasing resource proliferation, i.e. that by adding more we
Excellent suggestion! I'll tinker with that idea on the wikia page. I'll also put the SHIC reading list onto my list of links to add.
Awesome - The EA wiki library looks like the best way to do this idea, so I'll start to work on that over the next few weeks.
Hi - this sounds like something the forthcoming Oxford Institute for EA might find worth taking up.
It sounds like a good idea, although I have a few concerns:
-increasing dialogue between the EA community and academic philosophers
I think there could potentially be greater benefits from EAs publishing their ideas in other journals that have wider readerships. I'd be surprised if publishability was a serious bottleneck for EA researchers right now; as far as I can tell many EAs have already been able to publish their articles elsewhere.
Perhaps if there a...
I wasn't aware of the EA wiki library before but that seems like a good idea and I'll go do that. Thank you for suggesting it! If it becomes a comprehensive / worthy enough resource one way to make it more publicly known might be to post it as a stickied note on the facebook group / add it to this forum's other resources page. I'll look into SEO ideas also (since its a wikia page I'm sure other people will join.)
I haven't used stack exchanges much, but I'm curious to see how helpful they are. What do you envision the stack exchange being used for? My conce...
That's very kind of you - would you mind if I drew on this document for some of the links? I wasn't aware of EA Hub's library before but just stumbled across it, and it looks like the perfect platform to do this kind of thing in. I'll work on it when I have time over the next month or so - please feel free to contribute also! http://wiki.effectivealtruismhub.com/index.php?title=Library
Thanks for the links! I wasn't aware the EAHub wikia library existed (http://wiki.effectivealtruismhub.com/index.php?title=Library) but it looks like what I'm thinking of should go here. I'll get to work collating links soon.
I realize belatedly my original post sounds like its talking in terms of absolute advantages still :) But having a general sense of the 'ratios' between the different skillsets the median young EA possesses would be useful for comparative purposes I think. Maybe presenting that information in terms of ratios rather than absolute figures can also help ward against the anxieties of being part of (at least what I perceive to be) such a highly talented community. This might be easiest to do with things like SAT scores, where you have actual numbers to work with. But if this is a bad/incorrect way to think about comparative advantages I'd appreciate the correction.