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:
- Strict law/rule following — how negotiable is this?
- Risking harm to do good (labs, meat companies, military)
- Realism vs idealism — how much should we believe people and systems will promote the good?
- Omission vs commission (in interventions, in safety standards, risk of moving faster)
- How much can we trust prices to allocate resources?
- How important is relative equality of wealth and power?
- Where does value come from?
- Can goodness compete? (in the present, or in the long run)
- When does something become a Pascal's mugging?
- How much can we aggregate utility? (torture vs dust specks)
Universities represented
Organizers and recent graduates joining us from:
Contributors
A rotating cast of experienced EAs join the discussion groups. Expect people like:
Darius Meissner
Coefficient Giving
Andy Masley
Writer on EA, AI & the Environment
Florence Bacus
Philosopher, Harvard University
Kuhan Jeyapragasan
Ironsides
Matt Reardon
Nest
Sarah Bluhm
Nest
Matt Beard
Writer - 80,000 Hours
Michelle Ma
Ironsides
Carolyn Sarif-Killea
Attorney
Trevor Levin
Donor Advisor
Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Coefficient Giving
Julia Wise
Centre for Effective Altruism
Richard Chappell
University of Miami