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Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on Values in Effective Altruism
webA crowdfunded podcast project by EA community members Elizabeth Van Nostrand and Timothy Telleen-Lawton exploring truthseeking, values drift, and epistemic norms within Effective Altruism — tangentially relevant to AI safety through its focus on EA community epistemics and integrity.
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A Manifund-funded podcast project where Elizabeth Van Nostrand and Timothy Telleen-Lawton discuss truthseeking, values drift, and group intelligence within the Effective Altruism community. The project aims to shed light on epistemic norms and integrity issues in EA, with Elizabeth having previously written a blog sequence on truthseeking problems in EA. Four episodes were released as of the last update.
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- •Podcast focuses on truthseeking, values drift, and potential EA renaissance or diaspora, funded via crowdfunding on Manifund.
- •Elizabeth Van Nostrand is known for epistemic spot checks at AcesoUnderGlass.com and a year-long blog sequence on truthseeking problems in EA.
- •Timothy Telleen-Lawton has worked at multiple EA orgs and been involved in EA since 2013 and East Bay Rationality since 2016.
- •Project raised $7,810 toward a $13,045 goal, with 4 episodes released and one pending interviewee feedback.
- •Long-term goals include expanding to topics like epistemic norms, group intelligence, and building productive organizational cultures.
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Project summary:
Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora).
ETA: we have enough pledged donations to meet our goal of 5 episodes. Small donations are still emotionally meaningful, but not necessary at this time.
What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?
Short term (up to 5 episodes): shed clarity on truthseeking, integrity, and group intelligence within Effective Altruism via discussion on podcast. Timothy hopes to use this to aid healing EA; Elizabeth has given up on this and is hoping to find more like minded people.
Long term: If successful, we'd like to expand to other topics that catch our interest and seem valuable to discuss publicly. Could include topics such as epistemic norms, hope for an EA renaissance or splinter group, group intelligence, building productive cultures good for the people in them,, etc.
How will this funding be used?
Pay for both people’s time, equipment (e.g. microphones), software (e.g. Descript for editing), and services (currently just Elizabeth’s editing and research but these could be hired out in the future).
Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?
Elizabeth Van Nostrand: known for science writing and epistemic spot checks at AcesoUnderGlass.com, has received grants and done work for a variety of EA orgs. She had a year+ blog sequence outlining problems in truthseeking within EA. This sequence received many compliments but there is no concrete evidence of change she cares about.
Timothy Telleen-Lawton: Has worked at a variety of EA orgs, been a member of Effective Altruism since 2013 and East Bay Rationality since 2016
Our first episode has been released here. Discussion here.
What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?
The information falls on deaf ears, or generates a lot of heat an
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