Monthly Overload of EA - September 2022

By DavidNash @ 2022-09-01T13:43 (+15)

Link post for 2022 September EA Updates.

Events

16th-18th September - EAGxBerlin
23rd-25th September - EA Global: Washington, D.C.
September to December - Prague Fall Season
November to January - Mexico EA Fellowship
4th-6th November - EAGxRotterdam - Applications now open
2nd-4th December - EAGxBerkeley

Virtual Events

4th September - Giving What We Can Meetup joined by Leah Edgerton
8th September - Fauna Connections: Using Data to Help Animals
13th September - Do the Rich Pay Their Fair Share? - a debate with Peter Singer and Bryan Caplan
13th September - How To Get Your Project Funded - A talk by Joey Savoie from CE
19th September - Animal Advocacy Course - Sign up by September 18th for this 9 week course
EA Virtual Programmes - Apply by September 25th
21st-23rd October - EAGx Virtual

New Projects

Effective Altruism Psychology Lab, a team of researchers focused on empirically studying the psychology of EA
The Tarbell Fellowship - A one year programme for early-career journalists intent on improving the world. Apply by 9th October
Davit Jintcharadze has set up the Opportunity Center, aiming to help Georgian students to work on the world's most pressing issues
The Atlas Fellowship India has been set up for Indian students who want to help change the world
James Ozden has started the Social Movement Digest, a monthly roundup of social movement related content
There is a new community for data science/ML/AI people interested in EA
Giving What We Can are running charity elections again this year, for school students to vote on impactful charities to donate to
Julian Hazell with a call for people to summarise EA content
Yonatan Cale and Soof Golan have created a new view for the 80,000 Hours job board
A post introducing Squiggle, a programming language for probabilistic estimation
Radio Bostrom: Audio narrations of papers by Nick Bostrom
SEADS - a data science consultancy that offers services to EA organisations

Fellowships, Programs & Scholarships

Economics of Ideas, Science and Innovation Online PhD Short Course by the Institute for Progress - 6th September
Effective Institutions Project - Fellowship - 9th September
Center for AI Safety Philosophy Fellowship - 7 month fellowship for philosophy Ph.D. candidates and graduates - 30th September
Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships - 11th October

Careers

Toby Jolly with a post looking at how to have impact in the UK civil service
Charity Entrepreneurship have started their own career coaching service
Mark Xu - How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective
Lukas Jasiunas and Isaac Esparza - A subjective account of what it's like to join an EA-aligned org without previous EA knowledge
Pia Voltz with a job profile for people considering recruiting as a career
Nat Goldthwaite - How avoiding drastic career changes could support EA's epistemic health and long-term efficacy
Kevin Wei and Saad Siddiqui - A review of the Schwarzman Scholars program for EAs
Molly - Military Service as an Option to Build Career Capital
If you're seeking operations roles in EA in the next 1-6 months you can list yourself on the new EA operations database
Probably Good with the career profile - Civil Service Careers in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Community building

Kearney Capuano - Why You Should Give a TEDX Talk
Philip Hall Andersen - Red teaming introductory EA courses
Advice the CEA groups team gives to new university group organisers
Sofya Lebedeva - Workflows: an experimental alternative to introductory fellowships
A post announcing the EA Gather Town Event Hall as a global hub for online events
Eli Rose - Open Philanthropy is still seeking proposals for outreach and community-building projects
Julia Wise - The community health team’s work on interpersonal harm in the community
Open Phil is seeking bilingual people to help translate EA/EA-adjacent web content into non-English languages

Critiques

See all the entries to the Criticism and Red Teaming contest here

Rhodri Davies - Why am I not an Effective Altruist?
Erik Hoel - Why I am not an effective altruist
TheOtherHannah - demographics and power structures in EA
Aaron Bergman - Most Ivy-smart students aren't at Ivy-tier schools
Joseph Lemien - Should EA shift away (a bit) from elite universities?
Parth Thaya - Effective altruism is no longer the right name for the movement
Carla Zoe Cremer with a Twitter thread critique on the lack of institutional safeguards in EA
A post critiquing EA on the lack of expertise generally, and the 'Risks from Nuclear Weapons' series by Luisa Rodriguez specifically
Julian Hazell - The EA community might be neglecting the value of influencing people
Clearer Thinking podcast with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra - Critiquing Effective Altruism
Freddie deBoer - Effective Altruism Has a Novelty Problem
Wei Dai - Questioning the Foundations of EA
Richard Y Chappell - The Nietzschean Challenge to Effective Altruism
Étienne Fortier-Dubois - Aesthetics as Epistemic Humility
Hamish Huggard - Crowdsourced Criticisms: What does EA think about EA?

Grants

Open Philanthropy have made 112 grants recently, with a value of $132 million
- $47,300,000 - Farm Animal Welfare
  - $25,000,000 - The Humane League
  - $6,000,000 - Anima International
  - $3,000,000 - Albert Schweitzer Foundation
  - $3,000,000 - Food and Agriculture Research - Keel Bone Damage Reduction
- $37,700,000 - Human Health and Wellbeing
  - $13,600,000 - New Incentives - Nigeria
  - $4,600,000 - University of Connecticut Health Center - Syphilis Vaccine Development
  - $4,000,000 - International Vaccine Institute - Hepatitis E Vaccine Trial
  - $2,500,000 - International Vaccine Institute - Cholera Vaccine Clinical Trial
  - $2,500,000 - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - Rural Air Quality Monitoring
  - $1,000,000 - Center for Global Development
- $14,300,000 - Effective Altruism Community Growth
  - $7,000,000 - Effective Altruism Funds - Re-Granting Support
  - $4,250,000 - 80,000 Hours
  - $1,600,000 - Charity Entrepreneurship
  - $600,000 - Giving What We Can
- $8,900,000 - Potential Risks from Advanced AI
  - $2,700,000 - Rethink Priorities
  - $5,700,000 - Other Areas
  - $5,500,000 - Metaculus
- $5,400,000 - Longtermism
  - $3,000,000 - Kurzgesagt
  - $500,000 - Longview Philanthropy - Nuclear Security Grantmaking
- $3,600,000 - Criminal Justice Reform
- $3,100,000 - Land Use Reform
- $2,500,000 - Macroeconomic Stabilisation Policy
- $1,900,000 - Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
- $1,300,000 - Scientific Research
EA Long-Term Future Fund made 34 grants worth $2,100,000
- $305,000 - EA Switzerland/PIBBSS Fellowship
- $250,000 - Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
- $250,000 - Kristaps Zilgalvis
EA Animal Welfare Fund have made 25 grants with a value of $2,200,000
- $400,000 - Wild Animal Initiative
- $250,000 - Rethink Priorities
- $185,000 - Southeast Asia Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship
- $130,000 - Cambridge Effective Altruism CIC