Organizing Vancouver Summit for Effective Altruism 2025
Educator and coach passionate about supporting individuals along their goals.
-Into EA since '16, highly engaged since '22.
-EA Forum Personality: Ninja Lurker. Rarely post, but most of my votes tend to be strong, up or down regardless.
-I took the OFTW Pledge in 2023 and graduated to the GWWC Pledge in 2024 (on my podcast!)
-I've got a two young children, so I guess that makes me at least a squishy-soft-longtermist by default.
-USA/Canada
See 'how I can help others'. Doesn't this forum literally have 'altruism' in the name?
Love this:
To keep your eyes on the real prize takes constant effort.
When I organized a recent EA event, here's what I had down for the list of 'stakeholders', ranked from highest to lowest priority:
1. The least-empowered people and animals in the world
2.....
3.....
x. Core organizers, partners
y. Local EA Community
Hi @Martina Pepiciello , these are awesome! Would it be okay if we used some of these in promotional materials for our EA Summit in Vancouver?
Really appreciate the clarity this thought reflects. And yeah FarmKind is definitely onto something IMHO! Getting people to buy what they want may take some of the analysis paralysis out of complex decisions (pay 20% more for higher-welfare eggs because of welfare? or taste?). This discussion is needed for us to move closer to the moral revolution that holds farmed animals within our moral circle.
So I was procrastinating publishing on our Summit Retrospective, and then I saw this article.
The event was so amazing, and though I can, y'know be rational about it, seeing this post gives me a little fire to put it out there sooner!