Mike Pool
Bio
Participation4
Hi all, my name's Mike and I live in Massachusetts in the US.
I’m currently transitioning my career to AI, aiming to work in AI governance, China/ West relations, long-term. My immediate plan is to find a job related to AI hardware, starting with edge computing, to gain industry experience before entering governance.
I’m also managing an English→Korean translation project for the EA Handbook and part of the GWWC site.
I studied electrical engineering in college and worked three full-time jobs since then in the fields of test/ measurement and manufacturing as tech support/ training instructor, software developer, and project manager/ team lead/ sales.
In college, I started studying German, which I speak fluently (~C1 CEFR) having lived in Germany for almost three years. I also speak some Castilian/ Spanish (B1), Italian (A2) and Korean (A2), living in Korea for two years.
How others can help me
If you’re in AI governance, please contact me! I’d like to get a better sense of what working in AI governance is like and what kind of AI hardware experience, knowledge and network would be most useful.
Also, if you’re in AI on edge computing/ embedded/ firmware, please contact me! I’m looking for input on relevant project ideas and companies/ industries I should target for my first job in the field.
How I can help others
Provide connections with people who studied machine learning and would be willing to share their experiencesShare my my experience with attempt at community building in Seoul, South Korea
Share my experiences living abroad
Help with LabVIEW programming
Offer experience in project management and improving computer-based work processes
Give advice: make doing good a priority when consider college
Comments6
Thanks for answering my questions and the links! The additional info is much appreciated :D
We'll be submitting an application for group support funding in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for it!
Mind if I bug you to answer my 5th question too? We're planning on having a monthly social gathering, so I'm wondering if you found there to be any downsides to having them more regularly.
5. Why did you have so few general social meetups?
Thank you so much for documenting your experience growing EA Philippines from its start on the forum! This was super helpful and provided extremely relevant info for us. I'm helping the nascent EA South Korea and we're trying to increase engagement in the group here by holding regular meetings and and having some core EA content translated into Korean to make EA more accessible to Koreans.
I have some questions if you wouldn't mind answering if you can find the time (and if you can still remember :P)!
- You mentioned you were granted $2,400 in funding from CEA from May to December 2019. This funding source you linked is now a bit different, right?
was: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/groups-mentorship-and-funding
now: https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/group-support-funding - EA Blue General Assembly in September 2019 - "EA Philippines’ core members also gave talks at the event." Did you personally speak too? What did you, the core members, talk about?
- Why did you charge for the Rationality Bootcamp in 2019?
- What were common subjects you spoke about about during 1:1s back then? Did you, the core members, feel competent when holding them given your own limited experience with EA at the time? Or maybe your experience was more extensive than I'm thinking.
- Why did you have so few general social meetups?
I'm also curious to know if anyone is or has worked on an elevator pitch for EA and agree that capturing someon's attention/ interest enough to convince them to read through a full article is tricky. The idea of increasing someone's engagement with EA in a step-by-step manner is definitely worth consideration. Any info on efforts like this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks again Brian! Again, quite helpful to hear your perspective :D
We had a bit of a strikeout with our first social meetup last week with 0 attendees aside from the organizers XD It may be this was a fluke, but it also may be that until the group's better established and members have built up relationships with each other, more structured structured meetings will draw more people in.
We'll see what happens at our discussion group next week! :D