Julia_Wise🔸
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I'm one of the contact people for the effective altruism community. I work at CEA as the head of the Community Health team, trying to support the EA community in addressing problems and being a healthy and welcoming community.
Please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Besides effective altruism, I'm interested in folk dance and trying to keep up with my three children.
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In the example about careers, it could across that "do the normal thing" is a front for the more extreme thing. I think it's worth spelling out: different people do have actually different beliefs about what you should do here.
In the example about food, it's common that people assume I'm vegan because I serve vegan food for EA dinners. I'm not, and I don't want to create the impression that a specific diet is a required part of EA. (I should follow my own advice and flag this a little more clearly at my own dinners!)
Stuff I tell student organizers: Do more meta communication.
Represent the range of views that are in your group. If some people in your student group think “do the normal thing in university and explore your career options” and others think “drop out to urgently work on 2-person AI safety projects," represent to your group members that those are both views held in your group.
If you always serve vegan food, people will assume all EAs are vegan / you’re supposed to be vegan if you’re in EA. I suggest saying something like “We serve vegan food because that’s what works best for the combination of people in our group, but it’s not that everybody is vegan.” About half the people in the EA survey are vegetarian or vegan.
>FWIW I did send the CEA community health team a draft of this announcement.
Since you mention my team and you emailed me an FYI about 16 hours before this announcement went up, here's my opinion: don't hire someone with a fraud conviction for a finance or philanthropy role.
I really admire the work happening here!