It'd work out at a lower event costing, I reckon! But not at this one, assuming extrapolation from previous EAGs.

Don't worry I'll just go to other stuff. Heck, I will run other stuff. And I will turn up when it's cost-effective!

I did the maths and that cancels out half my donations for the whole year :(

The event costings for (some) EA events I've seen bandied about everywhere seem... really expensive. I'm extremely sure we can get cheaper things going with the right kinds of community connections and skillsets to draw on. And I say that as someone with event-runner experience.

 I'm running a Lake District EA summer holiday this year!

https://sites.google.com/view/ea-lakes-2025/

Friday 22nd - Tuesday 26th August 2025 (over the August bank holiday)
We're gonna hit up a bunch of the cool northern Lake District sites (Keswick, Ennerdale, Loweswater) in the afternoons, and have attendee-submitted SIG slots in the mornings and evenings. It's £120 if you can afford it, £60 if you can't or if you give £100+ to an effective charity and send the receipt. Not for profit, all surplus donated to an effective charity chosen by attendees.

I want to talk to and connect with people about UK EA community building, especially what I can do to support and engage GWWC pledgers and anyone involved in undercompensated direct work in a cause-neutral, person-empowering way. I'm not at EAG (too expensive) but please come along to my thing or reach out to me on the Forum if you want a chat!

Thank you!

I also do the same - small amounts really do go long ways. Grant applications are a separate skill from community engagement, often not that scope-sensitive (i.e. too much work for the small sums involved), and getting any funding awards is difficult right now/being turned down for funding can be really off-putting. The empowerment of an invested volunteer is generally a pretty good use of materials money.

You can call them differently or figure out a different number of them or whatever, but the thought remains the same - underlying principles not current causes.

Another plus is that many cause areas are kind of scary in art form (malaria? suffering on factory farms? nuclear war? AI doom?) so are maybe not the best for a mural intended to inspire new people.

This looks like it was excellent and I wish I'd been there.

Do you think there's further appetite for things in the North of England, and if so what?

Great article, directly related to my cause area too (nuclear forensics and nonproliferation).

I was wondering, have you engaged with the contemporary psychodynamic literature on malevolent traits at all? You mention NPD but only in a DSM context, whereas something like the psychodynamic diagnostic manual works on a different category set. I know they consider NPD (in its less extremely malignant and non-forensic forms) to be both quite common and inherently treatable.

I'd also mention the Shedler-Western Assessment Procedure (SWAP) with its associated DIRE risk score. It looks at how to get around the self-report problem without introducing too much other bias (I.e. tendency to rate someone as high on everything) by using cards with descriptions that you order in a deck. The idea is great, but the depth (it's intended primarily for clinical use) is a bit intimidating. Somebody looking at how to simplify the whole SWAP to something a bit less in-depth and more manageable might come up with a useful tool in this area.