November V.01
The most condensed version we have!
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Intro from EA NYC
Hi there,
For those new to NY, let it be known: winter is coming! But despite cold weather and holidays approaching, EA NYC has events and plans scheduled through the new year!
We have another jam-packed newsletter this month with loads of events, opportunities, news, and more. We hope our curated highlights give you the info you want in a condensed format!
That said, we got your feedback, and made some changes to make the newsletter even easier to read! You are now reading a highly abridged version of the newsletter. But if you find yourself looking for more, don't worry. You can still find our medium length edition here, and our full length edition here.
As a reminder, we always welcome you to email us any time with your thoughts and/or to set up a call with a member of our team to directly discuss your interests and goals. We're here to help you in your efforts to do good!
We look forward to hearing from you at our events, over email, and/or on a call.
Happy Thanksgiving, and talk to you soon!
~Alex and Rocky
Announcements
Special Announcements
EA movement changes and community health
As many of you likely saw, FTX, a major funder of EA projects, is now insolvent. There are a lot of uncertainties regarding how this might affect the EA movement. We don't currently have any answers that can't be found from public information, but we're here to support the community during this uncertain time. As a reminder, EA NYC Community Health Coordinator Megan Nelson is available as a resource to you for community health concerns. You may contact her anonymously here or reach out directly here.
But as alluded to in an interview with NY Magazine, Rocky reminds us that EA will not change just because of one bad apple.
Fill out the 2022 EA Survey to have your voice heard
Ran by Rethink Priorities, the annual survey reviews large shifts within the EA movement and helps organizations make more informed decisions. Anyone who broadly identifies with effective altruism, or is at all engaged with the EA community is encouraged to participate. Fill out the survey by December 1st; it may take you as little as 10 minutes!
EA Giving Tuesday Update
Update from our previous newsletter: EA Giving Tuesday will be a little different than we anticipated.This year there are two donation matching opportunities:
Meta’s Giving Season match: Details and instructions (Starts Nov 15)
Every.org’s Fall Giving Challenge: Details and instructions, provided by Will Kiely on the EA Forum (Already started)
Once you’ve received confirmation of a match, please let the EA Giving Tuesday team know the details via this impact evaluation form so they can quantify the value of these opportunities for future years.
Networking
Get connected 🤝
Introducing the new EA NYC Community Directory! Filter by cause area interests, related professions, and areas of expertise to find collaborators, peers, and allies! Want to join? Fill out your info here to submit (or update) your information!
Also, follow us on LinkedIn! You can now receive updates and connect more there. We also consolidated our links: you can check out this page for our events, newsletter, Slack, organizer contact, and more!
Virtual Coworking 🧑💻👨💻👩💻
Join us on the virtual EA Gathertown! Likeminded EA's from around the world gather to work effectively, provide accountability, and catch up over breaks. It's a unique place, so feel free to message Alex or EA GT Stewards if you're feeling lost upon arrival 😅
Events and community programming
December Community Lightning Talks: 2022 in Retrospect
Applications are still open for our lightning talks this December! The theme of this event is 2022 itself. As the year comes to a close, we want to hear about anything related to 2022: achievements, thoughts on world events, EA happenings -- whatever is on your mind that relates to the past year, is interesting, and can be explained in five minutes! You can apply to present here and find more information to join below.
Subgroups are growing 💪🦾
The legal subgroup has successful launched and is open to more applicants!
The consulting (link now fixed) and professor subgroups are also gaining interest.
Plus, you can now sign up for our Tech and Artists/Creatives/Communicators subgroups!
Find the whole suite of cause area and professional subgroups on our website.Have subgroup questions or ideas? Contact Alex!
NYC Community Highlights
We want to highlight more community member accomplishments! Keep us posted on anything exciting we can include in future newsletters!
EA NYC'er Sharang Phadke joins CEA's EA Forum Team!
Sharang is a new product manager at CEA focused on the EA Forum. Sharang previously worked as a product/software consultant for StrongMinds and IDInsight.
EA NYC'er Connor McGurk joins CEA's Virtual Programs Team!
Conor is now working full-time as a product manager focusing on EA Virtual Programs. Previously, Conor worked at Meta, where he founded and ran the EA @ Meta group for three years. You can check out his takeaways from that experience in his recent Forum Post, 7 learnings from 3 years running a corporate EA Group
Upcoming Events
To keep up to date on our upcoming events, check out our calendar on Facebook or Meetup, or add us to your Google Calendar!
Weekly Events
Every Monday, 2:00 - 4:00 pm: Virtual Coworking
Join EA NYC’s weekly virtual coworking space! Drop in for a bit or stay for the full block using this Zoom link.
Every Thursday, 1:30 - 2:00 pm: Office Hours
Join EA NYC Director Rocky on Thursdays using this Zoom link. From career advice to understanding EA concepts to anything else on your mind, stop by and chat!
Unique Events
Monthly Reading Group: Moral Uncertainty
Monday, November 28th at 7:30 to 8:30 PM
Zoom Link | Facebook | Meetup.com
EA Giving Tuesday After-party
Tuesday, November 29th from 7:00 to 10:00 PM
Factory 380 | Facebook | Meetup.com
Why Animal Advocacy Matters Much More Than You Think w/ Oscar Horta
Sunday, December 4th from 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Zoom link | Facebook | Meetup
*Now in-person* EA NYC Community Lightning Talks: 2022 in Retrospect
Tuesday, December 6th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Apply to present here!
Facebook | Meetup
EA NYC December Community Dinner
Saturday, December 10th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Facebook | Eventbrite
High-Impact Philanthropy for Animals and the Planet:
ACE and Giving Green 2022 Recommendations w/ Elisabeth Ormandy and Dan Stein
Tuesday, December 13th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM
Zoom Link | Facebook | Meetup
Monthly Discussion Group: Foundational Concepts in EA
December Topic: Impact Distributions
Thursday, December 15th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM
Zoom Link | Facebook | Meetup
End of Year Party
Wednesday, December 21st from 7:00 to 10:00 PM
Registration | Facebook | Meetup
Virtual Games Night!
Thursday, December 29th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Zoom Link | Facebook | Meetup
External events
There are also many events in the broader EA community you can join online! Here are a few below:
EA DC: Nuclear Security and Nuclear Risk Reduction as an EA Cause Area
Monday, December 5th at 7:00 PM
Eventbrite
NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy: Investigating Nonhuman Consciousness with Susan Schneider and Jonathan Birch
Wednesday, December 7th from 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Register for Zoom
EA Virtual Programs (Various Programs)
January - March
Apply by December 11 to join the Precipice Reading Group, the Intro to EA program, or the In-Depth EA Program.
We've also included our direct event calendar below, but depending on your email client, it may not load. Click here to see it on our website.
Jobs and Opportunities
EA-Related Jobs in NYC
As always, there are a ton of high-impact job opportunities available at a wide variety of organizations, in a multitude of cause areas, for various experience levels, and for many areas of expertise. In fact, there are too many to list here!
Below you will find some resources for job seekers, and a plug-in to a short curation of roles that seem likely to be high-impact. But career planning is complicated, and there are many factors to consider. For more uniquely-tailored support, talk to a member of the EA NYC team!
Resources
If you’re interested in a new role, we suggest checking out:
The 80,000 Hours job board - recently redesigned! 👀
The EA Opportunities board - including internships! 🙌
Potentially high impact roles:
Check out our Airtable job database here and please note:
Roles with orange accents have application deadlines coming up soon!
Some opportunities may be changing soon - please double check our work before applying!
If you decide to apply to any of the roles in our database or other EA-aligned roles, let us know! We're happy to help how we can.
Tip: You can also see a broader list of 80,000 Hours' job board filtered for New York (or remote) positions directly on our EA NYC Careers Page. Feel free to export the data and filter even more for your unique search!
Other Opportunities around the Community
For broader opportunities, we highly recommend the EA Opportunities Board and Training For Good Board.
We've selected a few opportunities to spotlight below, but note you can also find a more extensive version we made in a filterable database here. (Or you can directly export data from those two lists above!)
Here are this month's picks!
Note: some opportunities may be changing soon - please double check our work before applying
Biosecurity
Request a Chat with a Biosecurity Professional
The 30-minute meeting with an advisor will allow you to get career advice, learn about their experience, and ask questions about topics of common interest.
Pandemic Prevention Litigation Fellow
Become a part-time or full-time associate with Richman Law & Policy and help develop a strategic biosecurity litigation program.
Note: this is based in Irvington, NY
Nuclear Security
Become an ALLFED Volunteer
Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) has an established volunteer program, across a range of activities (from research to comms to operations to resilience).
UNODA Internships
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs offers various internships.
AI Safety and Policy
FLI AI Existential Safety Community
AI safety researchers: spend 10 minutes applying to join Future of Life Institute's growing AI Existential Safety Community.
NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop
Join the Center for AI Safety's workshop to focus on such research topics as Robustness, Monitoing, Alignment, and Systemic Safety. Apply by December 9.
Effective Altruism Community Building
Donor Relations Intern
GiveDirectly is looking for a NYC-based intern to work with their donor experience team.
Help curate the EA Behavioral Sciences Newsletter
Help is needed curating, critiquing, and promoting the Effective Altruism Behavioral Science Newsletter!
International Security & Cooperation
Government Career Coaching
Impactful Government Careers is facilitating 1:1 coaching for government careers.
Spring Editorial Intern
Foreign Policy is recruiting a spring editorial intern to assist with social media, reporting, and research.
Animal Welfare
Volunteer positions (links in description)
Animal Advocacy Africa is looking for volunteer roles in communications, research, and fundraising.
Economics Research, US Internship
Mercy For Animals is offering a short-term opportunity open to students and entry-level or transitioning applicants.
Global Health & Development
Communications Intern
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) intern will help develop and promote multimedia content, monitor press coverage, support website operations, and lead special projects.
Institutional Decision-making
EIP Volunteer
The Effective Institutions Project is seeking volunteers to help improve institutional decision making.
The Center for Election Science General Volunteer Application
The Centre for Election Science (CES) is seeking motivated candidates from many different skill backgrounds.
Extreme Climate Change
Effective Environmentalism Volunteer Organizer
Various positions for Effective Environmentalism, mostly doing tech and organizational work. See this table for currently open positions.
Information security
Cybersecurity Winternship 2022-2023
~ or ~
Vulnerability Research Winternship 2022 - 2023
Trail of Bits offers unique remote, short-term paid internship opportunities. You must be a student or recently a student to apply
Security Apprenticeship, Blockchain
Get mentored by one of Trail of Bits' senior security engineers, in this intensive 3-month program.
Miscellaneous Opportunities
Leadership Development
Torch is offering coaching, mentoring and digital learning.
Software Developer Coaching
Yonatan Cale is offering coaching on software development.
Community Updates & Global News
Publications
Want to stay up-to-date on all the EA reads? Check out this series by Zoe Williams of Rethink Priorities summarizing posts from the EA Fourm and LessWrong.
Articles & Papers
(Center for the Study of Existential Risk) Catherine Richards and Asaf Teacher published an article in NPJ Science of Food exploring the role that digital twins could play in transforming agricultural production systems.
Legal Priorities Project published two new working papers:
“Value Alignment for Advanced Artificial Judicial Intelligence” by Christoph Winter, Nick Hollman, and David Manheim, forthcoming in the American Philosophical Quarterly.
“Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Rights for Future Generations” by Eric Martínezand Christoph Winter, forthcoming in the Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence.
Brian Kateman on Fast Company: AI could fuel factory farming - or end it
EA Announcements & New Projects
You can sign up to receive monthly updates by subscribing to the EA Organization Updates thread on the EA Forum.
In Case You Missed It
Apart Research has a weekly ML Safety Newsletter (and podcast and YouTube). Check out there latest post for thoughts on potential funding changes, human-AI cooperation, interpretability, and more
New projects
Announcing VIVID - a new organization aspiring to scale effective self-improvement & reflection. They're building an app that helps individuals find the most effective ways to remove internal obstacles.
Org updates and new initiatives
Animal Charity Evaluators has a new Decision-Making Framework in their Tools for Charities.
Faunalytics has also updated their research library with articles on topics including the current state of cellular agriculture research and the outdated reliance on animal data. Faunalytics was also recommended by Giving What We Can in a recent YouTube video.
Probably Good just shared a new path profile on careers in medicine. The profile is primarily geared towards existing doctors and medical students who may not yet be familiar with EA principles.
(Center for the Study of Existential Risk) SJ Beard and Gideon Futerman submitted evidence to the White House Office of Science and Technology’s request for input to a Five-Year Plan for Research on Climate Intervention.
Evergreen Resources
We have a number of resources for getting more involved on our website!
There you can find our top recommendations for exploring EA ideas, staying updated on the latest news and opportunities, and getting connected with the community.
And of course, you can find even more resources about career planning or making effective donations on those respective pages of our site.
Lastly, we always invite you to contact our team to use us as resources - that's why we're here!
That said, we'd like to that Megan Nelson is EA NYC's Community Health Coordinator. You can contact her directly over email or anonymously. Also know that the Centre for Effective Altruism’s Community Health Team is available to you as well!
Have a lovely month!
Cheers,
Rocky, Alex, & The EA NYC Team