+1. Most people I speak to that 'only have heard of EA' explain EA as the idea that one should make more money to donate more (and more effectively). However, the principles described here are more encompassing.
Thanks for encouraging people to write their first post, I resonate with your words.
As for introducing yourself to the forum, people are encouraged to introduce themselves in the open quarterly threat I believe, see the current one. That might be a cleaner solution than writing lots of small introduction posts.
I encountered both types of participants (the ones that showed up because they had 'not much better to do' and the ones that are not used to committing). My impression was that most participants were ambitious and that they liked a challenge. The effect of the length of the event on potential participants with varying levels of ambition can be a bit ambiguous here. With a longer event it is also more likely that potential participants have other things planned during part of the event. My gut feeling says that making the commitment bigger than a day for an introduction hackathon (without coding) makes it less likely for people show up.
Great questions! From the 10 hours only 5-6 were spent hacking, which felt as short. Some participants mentioned in the feedback form they would have loved to see a 2-day event, whereas others mentioned that they thought the length to be great. When we marketed the event there were students mentioning they preferred to spend the weekend not doing much or that they thought of themselves as not being ambitious enough. I think this amount of time balanced well the quality of the event, the entry barrier for participants (time commitment), the costs of venue and food & the ask from volunteers. Next time we could do a networking & briefing session the evening before the hackathon (perhaps online if necessary?), in that way we can add some hacking time during the day itself.
Could this also be a good opportunity for pages written in languages other than English?
+1. Most people I speak to that 'only have heard of EA' explain EA as the idea that one should make more money to donate more (and more effectively). However, the principles described here are more encompassing.
Thanks for this! I did not realize 1 billion people currently live in slums.
Minor nitpick: The investigation is called shallow in the beginning, but in-depth in the end.
I recommend A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence by Michael Wooldridge
For organizational psychology I have found the works of Adam Grant to be quite good at explaining the research
Thanks for encouraging people to write their first post, I resonate with your words.
As for introducing yourself to the forum, people are encouraged to introduce themselves in the open quarterly threat I believe, see the current one. That might be a cleaner solution than writing lots of small introduction posts.
For the history leading up to machine learning I would recommend A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence by Michael Wooldridge
I encountered both types of participants (the ones that showed up because they had 'not much better to do' and the ones that are not used to committing). My impression was that most participants were ambitious and that they liked a challenge. The effect of the length of the event on potential participants with varying levels of ambition can be a bit ambiguous here. With a longer event it is also more likely that potential participants have other things planned during part of the event. My gut feeling says that making the commitment bigger than a day for an introduction hackathon (without coding) makes it less likely for people show up.
Great questions! From the 10 hours only 5-6 were spent hacking, which felt as short. Some participants mentioned in the feedback form they would have loved to see a 2-day event, whereas others mentioned that they thought the length to be great. When we marketed the event there were students mentioning they preferred to spend the weekend not doing much or that they thought of themselves as not being ambitious enough. I think this amount of time balanced well the quality of the event, the entry barrier for participants (time commitment), the costs of venue and food & the ask from volunteers. Next time we could do a networking & briefing session the evening before the hackathon (perhaps online if necessary?), in that way we can add some hacking time during the day itself.
Elon is aware of EA and he was even part of a panel at an EAG, see: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-superintelligen_b_7929960