I'd be doing less good with my life if I hadn't heard of effective altruism

I think the much necessary and needed clarity would have eluded me 

One of the issue I believe hindering University Group Organizers is largely motivation. What is motivating you to start a group, why do you need to and why do you want to? 

And I believe your post here has targeted these questions but I see some gaps such as some universities may not be welcoming of this idea. The group Organizer standing alone if not deeply rooted can be shaken from comments from others. And lastly, personal development is often being sacrifice for community building which most times lead to dearth of capacity in such group. 

This is quite an interesting take, on one hand, I like the humor Ollie uses in his writing, and on the other hand, the effect and how the points are pitched against one another. 

I think the most important thing, as stated in this discourse, to make the Panel Session effective is for the panelists to have a talk before the panel session, and the panel should only be to take questions from the participants and audience. That way, there is more context and nuance to the discussion.  

In brainstorming sessions, it's always been a lazy way of achieving negligible impacts. Basically because a lot of participants if not handpicked don't understand the context or don't have the knowledge about the subject matter. Most of the time, the submissions are not usable or forgotten. 

Regardless,  I still think there is some usefulness to the two and a lot of benefit if fine-tuned properly with more context, pre-brainstorming session material, and an open room to walk away. 

Thank you @OllieBase for sharing this take. 

Hi Tosin, 

We are currently reviewing applications and you will get a response in due course. We apologize for any inconvenience.  

That was nice 

This is a great stride in the right direction. Looking forward to your exploration of the Africa Tech Space.

A quick question, how do you plan on bringing the seeming lack of government collaboration with this type of project especially in some parts of Africa?

There is no link for the application of the EA South Africa Summits in Cape Town. 

Is that due to error or the registration is not open yet? 

It seems I get the knack of it now... 

So your argument here is that if we are going to go this route, then interpretability technology should be used as a measure  in the future towards ensuring the safety of this agentic AI as much as they are using currently to improve their "planning capabilities"  

Can you clarify this a bit "Only if the safety/alignment work applies directly to the future maximiser AIs (for example, by allowing us to understand them) does it seem very advantageous to me."

Kind of lost here

So, it is not a question of whether or not, it is a question of how best to carry out those systemic changes. 

Thanks, this is a clarity comes knocking at the right time