Excellent! Would be nice to get down to brass tacks as well. E.g., we’ve been spending 6-10% of our budget on this the past couple of years, and substantial staff time. 

Lots of questions about her views on EA marketing and communications please! How much effort does she think we should be spending on it, what sort of stuff we should be doing (beyond what we’ve already seen her do at EAA), etc. Would also like to hear her takes on why some orgs are reluctant/struggle to increase their investments in this area

Hey who you calling lesser?! ;) 

Tbh I don’t think there’s much of a difference in hub status between the Netherlands and Australia, but I haven’t been to Australia so that’s a low confidence take

Good luck! I think there are other people on here better suited to advising on launching a group in the US but if you’d like to hear about how our uni organisers in the Netherlands do it just drop me a line :) 

Good shout! And right now at EA Netherlands we're looking for new trustees!

I think most of what you're after already lives under the EA community building topic.

I'm co-director of EA Netherlands, and the main reason I think this work might be a good use of my time is precisely that it helps develop motivation for unusually effective altruistic action. So any time I'm discussing community building best practices, I'm in effect doing the thing you say should be the priority - 'debating the development of motivational strategies for altruistic action'. There's a fair amount of it about; it's just filed under a heading you may not have looked at yet. And working out what to be motivated about is part of the same project, which is why those object-level debates about animal welfare, AI and so on aren't a distraction from it - they're the substance it's meant to motivate.

I'd also gently push back on the opening premise. 'The greatest good for the greatest number' is the standard shorthand for utilitarianism, and EA isn't the same thing as utilitarianism - so it's not quite right to treat that slogan as the benchmark EA fails to meet. The only commitment effective altruism really requires is that helping others matters. Plenty of effective altruists aren't utilitarians and care intrinsically about things like rights, freedom, or fairness; most people end up giving some weight to several ethical theories at once. There's a good summary of this in the FAQs on effectivealtruism.org under 'Is effective altruism the same as utilitarianism?'.

Looks fun! I especially like ideas in the media xover events sheet

Oh perfect, I’ve been looking for a podcast that fills exactly this niche :) 

I listened to your most recent episode and really enjoyed it, thanks for producing it! 

Just jumping in to say I know both Stijn and Remmelt, so can confirm they’ve been heavily involved in EA (Stijn still is, Remmelt I’m not so sure, but he definitely co-founded EA Netherlands — I last spoke with him in 2024).

From what I know, Remmelt was (is?) heavily involved in StopAI.

I don’t want to speak for them but I’m pretty sure they’d both strongly oppose violent acts. Remmelt did so on Twitter here. 

I’m not endorsing the rest of your claims in the post, just wanted to corroborate this specific part.

Oh yes for sure. But I assume there will be another edition of the survey. There's a lot of vibe-based takes in this piece, which is fine, but it's also nice to look at the best data we have, which is probably this survey (and future editions of this survey). I want to know whether Harry thinks he will update his views as new data comes in.