Book a chat with an EA professional

I'd be happy to chat with anybody about charity entrepreneurship in the longtermist space. You can book a time here on my year-long, location-independent EAG calendly

Also feel free to book a time there for any other topic. I want to replicate the serendipitous meetings of an EAG year-round and I'm endlessly extroverted, so love talking to new people.

Thanks Ben for setting this up!

If there was some kind of Global EA directory/ year round Swapcard, this project idea could be rolled into it quite easily.

Thanks for putting this together!

The list of people on the google form and the list in this post don't match (e.g. Seren Kell is on the post but not on the form and vice versa for David Manheim and Zachary Robinson)

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Cool! I’d love to join in! I’ve created a “conversation menu” (h/t to a friend for the idea!) on my profile. Here’s a copy-paste that I probably won’t update when I update the original on the profile.

I’m happy to do calls, give feedback, or go bouldering together, also virtually. You can book me on Calendly.

Some topics for potential calls:

1. Impact markets
2. Other market mechanism for public and common goods
3. AI safety, especially to avert s-risks
4. AI timelines and whether to still buy NMN
5. Evidential cooperation in large worlds
6. Any tensions or gaps in our world models that you’ve been thinking about
7. MIRI-esque decision theory
8. Moral cooperation and trade
9. Any events that have been on your mind lately
10. Proportionality of safety mechanisms
11. Phonetics and phonology
12. Improving collective decision-making
13. Creating powerful quantitative world models for priorities research
14. Software engineering – Python, TypeScript, Solidity, etc.
15. Why I’m always so impressed by mathematicians
16. Autism, anxiety, worry, guilt OCD, depression, fatigue
17. Cultural effects on mental health
18. Understanding people
19. English-language literature
20. Impostor syndrome, or how incompetent exactly am I
21. Anything you would like me or others to understand about you
22. Well-being of farmed and wild animals today and within the next 1m years
23. Including invertebrates and micro-organisms of course
24. Well-being of organisms other than animals
25. Life optimizations
26. Bouldering, Trackmania, Othello, and lockpicking
27. World and space governance
28. Automated, decentralized governance
29. Trees of nested simulations and incentives to create them
30. Emulated minds
31. Intersectionality, genderlessness, and social anxiety
32. Acausal trade across levels and with other branches in the simulation tree
33. Incubators for EA and especially longtermist projects
34. Trade-offs between entrepreneurialness and safety
35. Turning the Long Reflection into a Hasty Reflection
36. EA community strategy and health
37. Longterm prediction markets
38. Cute animals and plushies
39. Vertical agriculture to reduce insect suffering
40. Anything else you’re interested in discussing
41. What you’ve been up to the past few days
42. Dummy item to reach 42

Also note that I’m not necessarily expert in all of this stuff! I suck at Trackmania for example.

Thanks Ben, good idea.

1. Am I right in thinking that if this takes off you take yourself out of the booking loop eventually? People can then do it directly by including a calendly link for example.
2. I'd like to be added with the following description:

Eli Kaufman

Independent consultant with background in operations. Helping organizations be effective by making the most of their systems. LinkedIn

Ask about:

• Bounce ideas about improvements/solutions to operational processes
• If you're considering setting up / joining / using the expertise of an agency providing services to EA-aligned organizations, I might be able to connect you to relevant people
• Salesforce related questions

Calendly

This is a great idea! I don't currently have capacity for one-to-one calls, but I do hold monthly small group calls in an "office hours" format.

I'm a technical AI safety researcher at CHAI and PhD student at UC Berkeley, and I'm happy to talk about my research, others' research, graduate school, careers in AI safety, and other related topics. If you're interested, you can find out more about my research here, and sign up to join an upcoming call here.

A critical reading is that this seems that most of the people would motivate chatters to take careers steps which may advance some of the projects that they or others have in mind.

Is this the objective (definitely can be worthwhile), while other avenues should be found for discussing solutions to problems that these professionals focus on?

The two people who so far commented about being willing to chat seem interested in brainstorming solutions (and unstructured chatting) in addition to sharing more one-sided advice.

Before I noticed these comments I meant to suggest renaming the post to something like 'Not sure about your next career steps and getting bored? Book a chat with an EA professional!'. With the comments, the expectations in the chat should be covered by  the topics list.

EA 101 questions

Hi Ben, I'm not clear what this refers to. Could this be clarified in the post?