I did not like the first episode
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Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora).
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.
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).
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.
The information falls on deaf ears, or generates a lot of heat and no light.
In earlier years there might have been risk of inflammation; seems like that market is now saturated and one more source won’t make it worse.
How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?
Elizabeth has a <$500 Patreon that is currently per-post but will become per-month in the near future.
We are particularly interested in crowdfunding because the number of donors (independent of donation size) is a predictor of impact. However, if successful, we plan to fundraise from larger donors for larger projects as well.
did not mean to post this. just was typing out my thought and accidently posted without thinking. that is why did not explain why
I like elizabeths posts so was exicted to watch the episode but was disappointment by podcast. like to see more met-discourse about the EA movement though. might expand on this later if have time
Luis Costigan
2 days ago
Elizabeth has always struck me as a careful thinker with her blog, and the opening podcast episode showed promise. I think EA needs people with EA experience but are now slightly outside the movement to provide the kind of constructive criticism that's hard to give from within.
Anton Makiievskyi
3 days ago
I enjoyed the podcast and found it useful. How many episodes do you expect to release given the minimum funding you indicated of 2600? I'd be more excited to put more funds into this endeavor if you can repeat the success of the first episode
Evelyn Ciara
5 days ago
I think meta-discourse about the EA movement from a principles-first perspective is valuable. I'd be keen to hear your ideas about how EA could evolve in the future!