We still have around 5 spots left for the upcoming Compassionate Future Summit!
 

I’ll soon be sharing 10 example content contributions and contributors — but in the meantime, here’s what I suggest to anyone applying in order to get the most out of the preparation for your self and make your content contribution most valuable for the other attendees. 

Ideally: 

• have a theory of change outlined for your career trajectory or your content contribution - with ranking strategies by their potential for impact and with risk/benefit ratio
• include a long-term outlook — How might your strategy impact future sentient beings in the next 10, 50, or 200 years? 

If you’re working on ideas that could meaningfully shape a more compassionate future, we’d love to hear from you!

Warmly,
Ruth

We still have around 5 spots left for the upcoming Compassionate Future Summit!
 

I’ll soon be sharing 10 example content contributions and contributors — but in the meantime, here’s what I suggest to anyone applying in order to get the most out of the preparation for your self and make your content contribution most valuable for the other attendees. 

Ideally: 

• have a theory of change outlined for your career trajectory or your content contribution - with ranking strategies by their potential for impact and with risk/benefit ratio
• include a long-term outlook — How might your strategy impact future sentient beings in the next 10, 50, or 200 years? 

If you’re working on ideas that could meaningfully shape a more compassionate future, we’d love to hear from you!

Warmly,
Ruth

Here is the respective forum post to the upcoming talk: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5Yh3hqhXSpCQcLLF2/compassionate-genomics-for-the-21st-century-genomic-welfare

📣We start in 12 hours, this time using the video conferencing platform jitsi. See link in the description 😊

Hi Alex, thanks for the kind words and thoughtful suggestion!

We actually run online events every other month, and everyone’s welcome to join. I’ll be setting up the next one soon, so I recommend following the Compassionate Future Initiative group page to stay in the loop.

As for the summit, making it hybrid would unfortunately compromise the community atmosphere we’re aiming to create. For more classic conference-style formats, where a safe, close-knit setting is less crucial, we might consider hybrid options in the future.

Hope to see you at one of the events—online or in person. :)

There’s no formal application deadline, but spots are limited and filling up at a considerable pace ;)

Hi @everyone. The meetup went very well today. Thank you everyone for your contributions! Here are the meetup minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D5CopGUHOMwXJaHVUcVDuBtaKjWLZ_5np5uFg6-VhaY/edit?tab=t.0

Only 3.5 h left until the next meetup. Looking forward to seeing you there and sharing news and updates

As preparation this time, I encourage people to develop a Suffering Abolitionists Project Prize proposal for e.g. XPRIZE (deadline 05 May 2024)

https://www.xprize.org/designstudio

Questions to answer:      
 

1. What is the problem you hope to address through this prize competition?
2. What assumptions or misconceptions prevent innovation in this area?
3. Describe the specific challenges (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental) currently slowing and/or preventing progress in this area?
4. Describe what the winning team must do to win your proposed prize.
5. Describe the competition format and provide any specific judging criteria. Eg Staged down select, a first to achieve, head to head race, best in class, with or without bonus prices...
6. What is the duration of your prize competition?
7. What size prize purse would motivate a team to compete?
8. What will be the immediate and lasting impacts of running this prize competition?
9. Propose a name for your prize concept.
10. Provide a one sentence description that clearly communicates your prize concept.
11. Upload an image that graphically communicates your prize concept.
12. Do you know of a company, organization, and/or an individual who would be willing to fund your prize concept?

Note, the XPrize is limited to certain categories:      

BIODIVERSITY + CONSERVATION

CLIMATE + ENERGY

DEEP TECH + QUANTUM

FOOD + WATER + WASTE

HEALTH

LEARNING + SOCIETY

SPACE + EXPLORATION

The link for Gather town (our meet up hall) wasn't updated. I did so now. See as well: https://app.gather.town/app/Yhi4XYj0zFNWuUNv/EA%20coworking%20and%20lounge?spawnToken=6DRLsIP5Gp1C30RP