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?
I'm organizing an EA Summit in Vancouver, BC, for the fall and am looking for opportunities for our attendees to come away from the event with opportunities to look forward to. Most of our attendees will have Canadian but not US work authorization. Anyone willing to meet potential hires, mentees, research associates, funding applicants, etc., please get in touch!
Congratulations on the event! Great to see this conversation expand. And great report for ops nerds
I’m curious about the accommodation you provided. The itemized breakdown notes that it was mostly airbnbs. Was it self-booked and compensated or centrally organized? Was taking out a block of rooms at a hotel or hostel considered?
Thanks @David M. Your comment kept me up at night. Knowing that some appointee has, in a couple weeks, undone so, so much good-faith work fills me with rage. All I want is to see the world come together for our most vulnerable so this mothereffer sees what we do and learns shame.
Our movement's time has come.
I'll never forget sitting in a room and getting the pitch from XR about how sortition could get us out of the climate mess. My interest is piqued and would love to see where this conversation goes.
I'd like to see a dialogue with Direct Cash Transfer advocates to identify an opportunity for funds to be directed to a community or 'village', and how that may compare to transfers to individual people. It could pick up important cultural values along the community vs. individual agency continuum.
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.