How the weekend runs
Friday
Arrive in the late afternoon, settle in, and gather for a welcome dinner and an intro-dense opening session.
Saturday
A full day: a high-contrast intro to EA, paired 1-1s, two long discussion-group blocks, breakout sessions, and dinner — with the evening left open for fun.
Sunday
More talks and discussion groups, a final synthesis to carry forward, generous 1-1 windows, and a last dinner before people head home.
Discussion topics
A sample of the bespoke questions we'll dig into in the discussion groups:
- How valuable is it to help animals? (non-existence; they don't give anything back)
- How bad was the past?
- How should you think about patronizing sweatshops vs patronizing factory farms?
- Should you drop out of school?
- How much do non-hedonic goods matter?
- Does cluelessness mean we should give up on longtermist projects, or neartermist ones?
- Reason vs evidence
- Risking harm to do good (labs, meat companies, military)
- Should we be risk neutral?
- Growth vs redistribution
Universities & EA groups represented
Organizers and recent graduates joining us from:
Oxford
Cambridge
Imperial College London
University College London
KCL
LSE
EA France
EA France
EA UK
EA UK
EA Germany
EA Germany
EA Spain
EA Spain
Contributors
A rotating cast of experienced EAs join the discussion groups. Expect people like:This line-up is still being confirmed.
Laura Gonzales-Salmeron
80,000 Hours
Gavin Leech
Arb Research
Catherine Brewer
Coefficient Giving
Lizka Vaintrob
Forethought
Stefan Torges
Forethought
Michael Aird
Longview Philanthropy
Zach Freitas Groff
Longview Philanthropy
Matt Reardon
Nest
Sarah Bluhm
Nest
Benjamin Hilton
UK AISI
Tom Barnes
UK AISI
Saloni Dattani
Works in Progress