I’m the new Content Specialist at the Centre for Effective Altruism, taking over from Aaron Gertler.
I’m taking on a lot of his old responsibilities, including running the non-engineering side of the EA Forum, and you can reach out to me if you have any questions about or issues with the Forum.
More below.
My name is Lizka.[1] You may have seen someofmyoldposts. You’ll likely be seeing me post more frequently now. :)
I have yet to meet another “Lizka” in the EA community. Please let me know if your name is also Lizka! (And as a minor point of clarification, my name is pronounced: "lease-kah.")
Congrats on the new role! I'd be keen to hear about your strategy for the forum when you've had time to formulate it.
(This is one place where I disagree with the LW team that tends to deemphasise meta-posts. I agree that it's important to prevent a forum from being overrun with meta, but I believe that it's important to very occasionally promote certain meta-posts in order to create the sense of a community. In particular, I'm in favour of occasionally promoting posts that provide the community with a sense of where things are headed and allow input into major decisions).
Congrats! Really exciting to a) see how much skill development and progress you've made in the <1 year that I've known you, and b) the future of the Forum now that you're at the helm!
I was curious, MetaCulus and similar sites have been really useful recently for many EA's. Would there be anyway to create a similar system on EA here to do group sourced elicitation for possible ethical outcomes? It might super power the EA Forum's ability to make rational comments!
Hi Lizka! Thank you for the great introduction of yourself, would be great to communicate and discuss lots of interesting/important topics here on EA forum!
TL;DR
NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing intimate partner violence through edutainment, in our case a serialised radio drama. Over the past two years we have produced and aired two seasons in Rwanda.
We are currently evaluating our second season through a randomized controlled trial with 2,400 couples in Rwanda in partnership wi...
This summer, 27 residents came to Berkeley for the first cohort of the Generator Residency, a three-month program for AI safety generalists run by Kairos and Constellation.
Residents receive mentorship from experienced generalists and researchers and are working on projects like running workshops for professionals entering AI safety, building a cross-org...
Summary
1. With new funding potentially entering the effective altruism ecosystem, we wanted to estimate how much more the wild animal welfare (WAW) movement could productively absorb. We asked organizations with a public, dedicated WAW workstream to estimate their own room for more funding (RFMF). Although this does not capture the whole movement, we believe it captures a substantive fraction of it.
2. Summed across the five organizations that took part, the estimates point to...
Congrats! I'm excited for you and for the future of our Forum!
Thanks:)