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It depends on target audience. I guess that beside DGB it will be also The Precipice (both DGB and The Precipice have Czech translations), Human Compatible, Superintelligence, maybe even Scout Mindset or Rationality from AI to Zombies.
 

Thanks for the reply!

Small note: AI Safety researchers I've talked to (n~=5) have almost universally recommend Brian Christian's The Alignment Problem to Human Compatible. (I've started reading but have not finished either).

I also personally got a bunch of value from Parfit's Reasons and Persons and Larissa MacFarquhar's Strangers Drowning, but different people's tastes here can be quite different. Both books predated DBG I think, but because they're from fields that aren't as young/advancing as fast as EA, I'd expect them to be less outdated.

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saulius
6y
I believe you meant to link to this comment of yours :)

We do not have recordings, and all talks were given in czech language so even if we would have recordings they would not be very useful ;-).

Hi Saulius. CZEA retreat organizer here.

Thank you for this report.

We did "concept explaining somewhat differently:

  • a) people could fill out form w/ list of concepts they can/want explain several days earlier. They also had links to recommended articles for many of concepts offered.
  • b) during activity we projected on a screen list of groups (~3 people learning, one teaching) and what is their concept for this session.
  • c) after 15 minutes we hit the gong and projected list of new groups with new topics.

It seems to me that Circling and Hamming circle... (read more)

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saulius
6y
oh, I didn't notice that there was a question about circling as well. There are circling meetups where I did circling with strangers and it was great. So it's not necessary to be close with people before, though the experience is quite different if you are. I imagine that many people will find circling awkward no matter what but in this case I think we simply did not have enough time to get into it. We only allocated 1 hour for it (and I'm not sure even that is enough) and then we decided to do it in the park but walking to the park took much more time than expected. It was the lowest rated activity (3.7) but I didn't include it in the table of the article because I believe that it wasn't given a fair chance.
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Kirsten
6y
I didn't attend, but someone told me the circling thing was awkward.
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saulius
6y
I see, that is very different. I only know about the feedback I already presented and the one hamming circle I myself participated in. In my circle all 3 of us were quite connected already. It may have helped but I'm not sure it was necessary. Both of them didn't know what to do with their careers so it was like a mini career-coaching session. It felt productive.

Thanks. How is it licensed? Under what conditions is it possible to share copies or translate (parts of) it?

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MaxDalton
6y
I encourage you to share copies online. For reasons similar to those discussed above, we didn't get consent to make physical copies from all of the authors. I have not yet asked for permission on translation, but I will do so and reply in this thread. (This post may be interesting for you if you haven't already read it: http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1lh/why_not_to_rush_to_translate_effective_altruism/).