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EA Global 2016

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9:00am PDT

Registration 8. Lower Sproul Coffee & Snacks 1. Zellerbach Hall

10:00am PDT

Opening Keynote 1. Zellerbach HallWill MacAskill

11:00am PDT

Center for Effective Global Action Office Hours g. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 7Alexandra Wall Office Hours: The Life You Can Save f. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 6Jon Behar

11:40am PDT

Opening: Philanthropy and technology 1. Zellerbach HallJaan Tallinn (Remote) Career choice panel: research, policy or earning to give? 2. Pauley Ballroom EastMaria-Veronica Rojas • Jeff Kaufmann • Richard Parr • Rob Wiblin Lightning Talks I 4. Senate ChambersBlake Borgeson • Anders Huitfeld • Richard Mallah 80,000 Hours - What's the most pressing problem in the world? 6. MandroneBen Todd Existential Risk Careers Beyond Research 5. Tilden RoomNiel Bowerman Starting Projects Workshop 7. Bay ViewBrian Kateman Fermi Modeling l. Eshleman Hall - Room 310Ozzie Gooen Future of EA for Animals n. Eshleman Hall - Room 338Jacy Reese How Can We Fix Science? k. Eshleman Hall - Room 212Geoff Anders

12:00pm PDT

Philanthropy and Technology 1. Zellerbach HallErik Torenberg • Jaan Tallinn (Remote) • Howie Lempel • Luke Nosek • Garreth Spillane • Katrin Verclas Office Hours: MIRI i. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 9Rob Bensinger • Malo Bourgon • Nate Soares

12:40pm PDT

Lunch 8. Lower Sproul

1:00pm PDT

Careers in Politics and Policy with Richard Parr, former Special Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron h. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 8Richard Parr

1:20pm PDT

Office Hours: CEA Special Projects g. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 7Michael Page

2:20pm PDT

Q&A with Philip Tetlock 1. Zellerbach HallPhilip Tetlock Are scientists responsible enough? 2. Pauley Ballroom EastMartin Rees Big Data & Machine Learning in Public Policy 4. Senate ChambersJosh Blumenstock • Solomon Hsiang 80,000 Hours - What's the highest impact career? 6. MandroneBen Todd MIRI - Using machine learning to address AI risk 7. Bay ViewJessica Taylor Prioritisation frameworks 5. Tilden RoomOwen Cotton Barratt Office Hours: Effective Altruism Foundation i. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 9Lukas Gloor • Adriano Mannino Office Hours: Animal Charity Evaluators h. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 8Jacy Reese Office Hours: Founders Pledge j. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 10Ben Clifford • Niel Jansen

2:40pm PDT

Avian cognition and consciousness: The gray parrot and its implications on animal welfare 2. Pauley Ballroom EastIrene Pepperberg

3:00pm PDT

Doing philanthropy better: Q&A with Cari Tuna 1. Zellerbach HallWill MacAskill • Cari Tuna

3:20pm PDT

Office Hours: GiveWell e. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 5Natalie Crispin • Andrew Martin Office Hours: Open Philanthropy Project g. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 7Lewis Bollard

4:00pm PDT

Infinite ethics 4. Senate ChambersAmanda Askell Should EAs do policy? 2. Pauley Ballroom EastSeb Farquhar Beyond Malaria 1. Zellerbach HallGenya Dana • Kevin Esvelt 80,000 Hours - Advanced Career Strategy 6. MandroneBen Todd Animal Prioritization 5. Tilden RoomLewis Bollard MIRI - Logical Induction: Progress in AI Alignment 7. Bay ViewAndrew Critch Human Recursive Self-Improvement k. Eshleman Hall - Room 212Geoff Anders Philanthropy Education l. Eshleman Hall - Room 310Jon Behar Office Hours: Future of Humanity Institute j. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 10Niel Bowerman

4:20pm PDT

Earning Influence with Thought Leaders 4. Senate ChambersJohn Chisholm

4:40pm PDT

Communicating Research 4. Senate ChambersHeidi McAnnally-Linz Engineering Revolutions 1. Zellerbach HallEd Boyden How much evidence is enough? 2. Pauley Ballroom EastMichael Kremer

5:00pm PDT

Risks from biological research l. Eshleman Hall - Room 310Tsvi Benson-Tilsen

5:40pm PDT

Virtue-signaling: From evolved trait-display to conspicuously effective altruism 4. Senate ChambersGeoffrey Miller Opening: The end of poverty 2. Pauley Ballroom EastPeter Singer (Remote) The replication crisis: How widespread is it and should it affect our plans? 1. Zellerbach HallJulia Galef • Stuart Buck • Brian Nosek • Ivan Oransky • Stephanie Wykstra 80,000 Hours - What the effective altruism community means for your career. 6. MandroneBen Todd Navigating intellectual disagreement III 5. Tilden RoomMcKenzi Amodei Scenario Planning 7. Bay ViewDavid Denkenberger Foundational Research Institute: Suffering Focused AI Safety n. Eshleman Hall - Room 338Ruairi Donnelly • Lukas Gloor • Caspar Oesterheld How to give students in EA student groups something to do besides advertising EA l. Eshleman Hall - Room 310 Philosophy and Effective Altruism k. Eshleman Hall - Room 212Geoff Anders

6:00pm PDT

The End of Poverty 2. Pauley Ballroom EastJeff Brown • Anne Healy • Svetha Janumpalli • Rajesh Mirchandani • Timothy Telleen-Lawton

6:20pm PDT

Coordinating for a Stronger Community 4. Senate ChambersJulia Wise

6:40pm PDT

Dinner [off campus] 8. Lower Sproul

8:00pm PDT

Three $300,000 Decisions 6. MandroneAndrew Eschler Understanding Social Technology 7. Bay ViewSamo Burja Hamming Circles 5. Tilden RoomDuncan Sabien

9:20pm PDT

Mindfulness Meditation for Effective Altruists 7. Bay ViewJoseph Carlsmith Origin stories II 6. Mandrone