Hey. I'm Jordan (jojo) Pieters. I'm currently the EA Global Content Coordinator at CEA, meaning I arrange all the talks, workshop and meetups at EAG conferences.
Previously, I was involved in a variety of EA community-building projects, including running EA Oxford for the 23/24 academic year. I also have some experience in operations management.
Feel free to reach out if you want to share feedback on EAG, or have ideas for content!
I share your inclination toward significant diversification. However, I find myself grappling with the question of whether there should be specific limits on this diversification. For instance , Open Philanthropy's approach seems to be "we diversify amongst worldviews we find plausible," but it's not clear to me what makes a worldview plausible. How seriously should we consider, for example, Nietzscheanism?
I'm glad this now exists, and the leadership seems great! My impression is that work on restricting the growth of the farmed insect industry is similarly very funding-constrained. Given that, I'm curious about the decision to focus the foundation's efforts exclusively on scientific research rather than also supporting policy or advocacy work.
Hello forum, just checking in as the EAGxLondon team lead. A couple of things I'd like to say:
Some very belated updates on this project:
In case it's not obvious, we didn't end up running this. There were a couple of reasons for that:
I probably wouldn't consider running it now:
In case you haven't seen it, here's a fireside chat we hosted with Ezra Klein in 2021. It might be cool to have him back at EAG though!