invoke our common humanity, instead of our disparate diets

I really like this approach. I could see a lot of omnivores get behind "demanding better standards" too, and happily spend a (tiny) but more money on groceries, knowing that this significantly increases welfare. 

TLDR: Reach more people by sharing on TED's YouTube channel? 

Great work, much appreciated! 

Side note: Looks like TED did not (yet?) share your talk on their YouTube channel as well, although the talk took place in April already. Not sure why, maybe it's a business decision, maybe they share only a fraction of TED talks on their YouTube, maybe it's something else. 

For reach, it seems pretty important to share it on YouTube as well? Does anyone have insights in TED's YouTube channel policy, and ideas whether we can do anything to get it shared there? 

Until then, some random YouTuber with <100 followers uploaded it here: 

Related question: How often do you run a public open hiring round and end up hiring someone already on your radar, who would have been part of your closed hiring round as well? 

Not saying this is always bad, the public hiring round might still have been worthwhile in expectation, I'm just curious how often these things happen. Probably various a lot between roles & orgs. 

I also wonder whether we could do some kind of standardized test once a year on things that EA orgs uniquely care about, like reasoning transparency or understanding of EA, and then various EA orgs could use that for their hiring. 

If requires some initial coordination & investment, but after that it could save both orgs and applicants quite some time and money. 

Strongly upvoted, thanks!  

I've heard this many times, and I feel like some orgs might indeed overdo it with work tests. I'd be curious how much more info recruiters get from 4-8h work test, compared to 1-2h + a (short) interview, and maybe allowing people to submit an existing work sample or so. 

With that many views (800k as of now), it might be worth looking into starting non-English sister channels as well. 

Youtube science channel Kurzgesagt, for example, has a very large German and Spanish channel as well (2m subscribers each, ~10% of the 24m of the English channel). We (aisafety.berlin) would be happy to help with German, if you ever want to prioritize that, though Spanish, Hindi, and maybe Mandarin seem more important. 

>800k views as of now (4 days in), very impressive! 

Side note: I appreciate that you actually sought out critiques with your bounty offer and took the time to respond and elaborate on your thinking here, thanks! 

Great work! 

Have you considered translating it in other major languages, especially those with large existing EA communities like German, French or Spanish, or EA potential? 

A draft translation could be made with AI, and then EA communicators with high context (such as the EA Germany / EA Spain & LatAm organizers) could give feedback and adapt it to culture-specific norms. Once everyone is happy, small flag icons could link to the translation. 

Advantages: 
- The non-English EA content & communities would be a lot more accessible, and we might counterfactually reach more non-English speakers (e.g. older people who could be donors, senior policy-makers, ...)
- Non-English versions would be better. Even orgs like EA Germany who seem to have spent significant time updating their website don't have the capacity to build someone as professional as CEA does (for comparison, here's the German website: https://effektiveraltruismus.de/)
- Generally, more connections between the English & non-English versions, so everyone can find what they're looking for easily. Currently, effectivealtruism.org does not seem to the German version at all, and on the German website (effektiveraltruismus.de), the English flag icon at the top right does not link effectivealtruism.org either. 

Costs: 
- Mainly time costs by EA communicators (CEA, EA Germany, ...). Any other costs I missed?

Note that I'm not saying that the EA Germany website is a duplicate, it's not, just the "intro to EA" part could maybe be better connected. 



 

If at some point you're seriously considering downsizing the EA forum team or even shutting it down, maybe consider running a (simple) crowdfunding campaign for the EA forum among users, both to get funding and to get a better sense of how much users value having a value-aligned forum (optimizing for quality, usefulness & user happiness) instead of only a subreddit. 

My sense is that quite a lot of users value it quite a lot (just based on how much time people seem to spend on the forum), but I don't have data on it.