EA - EA Strategy Fortnight (June 12-24) by Ben West

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA Strategy Fortnight (June 12-24), published by Ben West on June 8, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Tl;dr: I�m kicking off a push for public discussions about EA strategy that will be happening June 12-24. You�ll see new posts under this tag, and you can find details about people who�ve committed to participating and more below.Motivation and what this is(n�t)I feel (and, from conversations in person and seeing discussions on the Forum, think that I am not alone in feeling) like there�s been a dearth of public discussion about EA strategy recently, particularly from people in leadership positions at EA organizations.To help address this, I�m setting up an �EA strategy fortnight� � two weeks where we�ll put in extra energy to make those discussions happen. A set of folks have already volunteered to post thoughts about major strategic EA questions, like how centralized EA should be or current priorities for GH&W EA.This event and these posts are generally intended to start discussion, rather than give the final word on any given subject. I expect that people participating in this event will also often disagree with each other, and participation in this shouldn�t imply an endorsement of anything or anyone in particular.I see this mostly as an experiment into whether having a simple �event� can cause people to publish more stuff. Please don't interpret any of these posts as something like an official consensus statement.Some people have already agreed to participateI reached out to people through a combination of a) thinking of people who had shared private strategy documents with me before that still had not been published b) contacting leaders of EA organizations, and c) soliciting suggestions from others. About half of the people I contacted agreed to participate. I think you should view this as a convenience sample, heavily skewed towards the people who find writing Forum posts to be low cost. Also note that I contacted some of these people specifically because I disagree with them; no endorsement of these ideas is implied.People who�ve already agreed to post stuff during this fortnight [in random order]:Habryka - How EAs and Rationalists turn crazyMaxDalton - In Praise of PraiseMichaelA - Interim updates on the RP AI Governance & Strategy teamWilliam_MacAskill - Decision-making in EAMichelle_Hutchinson - TBDArdenlk - On reallocating resources from EA per se to specific fieldsOzzie Gooen - Centralize Organizations, Decentralize PowerJulia_Wise - EA reform project updatesShakeel Hashim - EA Communications UpdatesJakub Stencel - EA�s success no one cares aboutlincolnq - Why Altruists Can't Have Nice ThingsBen_West and 2ndRichter - FTX�s impacts on EA brand and engagement with CEA projectsjeffsebo and Sofia_Fogel - EA and the nature and value of digital mindsAnonymous � Diseconomies of scale in community buildingLuke Freeman and Sjir Hoeijmakers - Role of effective giving within Ekuhanj - Reflections on AI Safety vs. EA groups at universitiesJoey - The community wide advantages of having a transparent scopeJamesSnowden - Current priorities for Open Philanthropy's Effective Altruism, Global Health and Wellbeing programNicole_Ross - Crisis bootcamp: lessons learned and implications for EARob Gledhill - AIS vs EA groups for city and national groupsVaidehi Agarwalla - The influence of core actors on the trajectory and shape of the EA movementRenan Araujo - Thoughts about AI safety field-building in LMICsChanaMessinger - Reducing the social miasma of trustparticlemania - Being Part of Systemsjwpieters - Thoughts on EA community buildingMichaelPlant - The Hub and Spoke Model of Effective AltruismQuadratic Reciprocity - Best guesses for how public discourse and interest in AI existential risk over the past few months should update EA's...