Toby Tremlett🔹

Content Strategist @ CEA
7628 karmaJoined Working (0-5 years)Oxford, UK

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Hello! I'm Toby. I'm Content Strategist at CEA. I work with the Online Team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more. 

Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects. You can find a bit of my own creative output on my blog, and my podcast feed.

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Sounds awesome Tony. 
Pretty similar (from this high level description) to the work of Eleos AI. Have you guys connected? 

Reminder that if we reach $15K, we'll run a debate week of the Forum's choice. 
 

Thanks to an anonymous Forum user who notified me about a couple instances of vote brigading, some votes have been nullified. Those whose votes are nullified will be able to vote again. This does mean that the ranking on the banner has changed a bit (but not drastically). 

I'm not publicising the name(s) of the vote brigader(s) because this is mostly my bad - I didn't send as many clear reminders of the rules of the competition to orgs who joined late. As far as I know, no one deserves a reputational hit for this one (well, yep apart from me, sorry all!). 

The donation election 'I voted' flair (pictured below) was broken until last night. If you vote again it should be added to your account! 

(This is also a reminder that you can change your vote as many times as you like, and the deadline is Sunday)
 

Love this as a lock-in diagram. 

Years ago when I was working with Richard Fisher on The Long View, we were trying to come up with a good extended metaphor for lock-in. I was pretty stuck on the idea of a tilt-maze (which is intuitive but unfortunately the term means little to people reading). 
Sterling Games Large Wooden Labyrinth Marble Ball Tilt Maze Wood Game

The problem with the tilt maze is that it is binary - you are either totally free to move the ball wherever, or you are trapped in a hole. Your diagram works much better - it intuitively gives you the idea of more and less sticky troughs. You could also represent a more binary lock in with a deeper valley. 

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