Toby Tremlett🔹
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Hello! I'm Toby. I'm Content Manager at CEA. I work with the Online Team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more.
Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects. You can find a bit of my own creative output on my blog, and my podcast feed.
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Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.
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Hey Greg!
Welcome to the EA Forum :)
I'm Toby, the Content Manager for the Forum (I run events, write newsletters, and talk with authors about their work).
Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or using the Forum.
Hey Andre!
Welcome to the EA Forum :) I'm Toby, the Content Manager for the Forum (I run events, write newsletters, and talk with authors about their work). Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or using the Forum.
With the debate week discussion thread getting so long, it is now a community service (even more than usual) to sort the comments by "new" and upvote/ downvote or comment. Let's not let quality content get buried!
Anyone know any Earn-To-Givers who might be interested in participating in an AMA during Giving Season? If a few are interested, it might be fun to experiment with an AMA panel, where Forum users ask questions, and any of the AMA co-authors can respond/ co-authors can disagree.
Why? Giving Season is, in my opinion, a really great time to highlight the earn-to-give work which is ongoing all year, but is generally under-celebrated by the EA community. + Earn-to-givers might have good insights on how to pick donation targets during the donation election, and Giving Season more generally.
Me too! The two broad categories of ideas I've had are basically
1. Key cause-prio debates- especially ones which have been had over many years and many posts, but haven't really been summarised/ focused into one place (like those you list)
2. Debates about tactics/ methodology. For example: "We should invest more heavily in animal sentience research than corporate campaigns". That's a rough example, but the idea would be to do a debate where people would have to get fairly fine-grained in cost-effectiveness thinking before they could vote. I doubt we would get as much engagement, but engagement may be particularly valuable if the question is well posed.