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Friday
, August 5
2. Pauley Ballroom East
2:00pm •
Opening reception
3:00pm •
Icebreaker: Cover Stories
4:40pm •
Icebreaker: Speed Introductions I
7:20pm •
Opening announcement
7:40pm •
Academic Poster Q&A
5. Tilden Room
2:40pm •
80,000 Hours Career Workshop
7:40pm •
How to Save the World While Still at School: EA Student Chapters
6. Mandrone
3:00pm •
How to change your mind
4:40pm •
Navigating intellectual disagreement I
6:20pm •
Tactics and Strategies for Cooperative Conversation
7:40pm •
EA Origin Stories
7. Bay View
3:00pm •
Career targeting for software engineers
4:40pm •
Corporate Activism: Discussion Session
6:20pm •
Planning Under Uncertainty
7:40pm •
Explaining concepts well
9:00pm •
Probabilistic decision-making
Saturday
, August 6
1. Zellerbach Hall
9:00am •
Coffee & Snacks
10:00am •
Opening Keynote
11:40am •
Opening: Philanthropy and technology
12:00pm •
Philanthropy and Technology
2:20pm •
Q&A with Philip Tetlock
3:00pm •
Doing philanthropy better: Q&A with Cari Tuna
4:00pm •
Beyond Malaria
4:40pm •
Engineering Revolutions
5:40pm •
The replication crisis: How widespread is it and should it affect our plans?
2. Pauley Ballroom East
11:40am •
Career choice panel: research, policy or earning to give?
2:20pm •
Are scientists responsible enough?
2:40pm •
Avian cognition and consciousness: The gray parrot and its implications on animal welfare
4:00pm •
Should EAs do policy?
4:40pm •
How much evidence is enough?
5:40pm •
Opening: The end of poverty
6:00pm •
The End of Poverty
4. Senate Chambers
11:40am •
Lightning Talks I
2:20pm •
Big Data & Machine Learning in Public Policy
4:00pm •
Infinite ethics
4:20pm •
Earning Influence with Thought Leaders
4:40pm •
Communicating Research
5:40pm •
Virtue-signaling: From evolved trait-display to conspicuously effective altruism
6:20pm •
Coordinating for a Stronger Community
5. Tilden Room
11:40am •
Existential Risk Careers Beyond Research
2:20pm •
Prioritisation frameworks
4:00pm •
Animal Prioritization
5:40pm •
Navigating intellectual disagreement III
8:00pm •
Hamming Circles
6. Mandrone
11:40am •
80,000 Hours - What's the most pressing problem in the world?
2:20pm •
80,000 Hours - What's the highest impact career?
4:00pm •
80,000 Hours - Advanced Career Strategy
5:40pm •
80,000 Hours - What the effective altruism community means for your career.
8:00pm •
Three $300,000 Decisions
9:20pm •
Origin stories II
7. Bay View
11:40am •
Starting Projects Workshop
2:20pm •
MIRI - Using machine learning to address AI risk
4:00pm •
MIRI - Logical Induction: Progress in AI Alignment
5:40pm •
Scenario Planning
8:00pm •
Understanding Social Technology
9:20pm •
Mindfulness Meditation for Effective Altruists
8. Lower Sproul
9:00am •
Registration
12:40pm •
Lunch
6:40pm •
Dinner [off campus]
e. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 5
3:20pm •
Office Hours: GiveWell
f. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 6
11:00am •
Office Hours: The Life You Can Save
g. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 7
11:00am •
Center for Effective Global Action Office Hours
1:20pm •
Office Hours: CEA Special Projects
3:20pm •
Office Hours: Open Philanthropy Project
h. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 8
1:00pm •
Careers in Politics and Policy with Richard Parr, former Special Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron
2:20pm •
Office Hours: Animal Charity Evaluators
i. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 9
12:00pm •
Office Hours: MIRI
2:20pm •
Office Hours: Effective Altruism Foundation
j. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 10
2:20pm •
Office Hours: Founders Pledge
4:00pm •
Office Hours: Future of Humanity Institute
k. Eshleman Hall - Room 212
11:40am •
How Can We Fix Science?
4:00pm •
Human Recursive Self-Improvement
5:40pm •
Philosophy and Effective Altruism
l. Eshleman Hall - Room 310
11:40am •
Fermi Modeling
4:00pm •
Philanthropy Education
5:00pm •
Risks from biological research
5:40pm •
How to give students in EA student groups something to do besides advertising EA
n. Eshleman Hall - Room 338
11:40am •
Future of EA for Animals
5:40pm •
Foundational Research Institute: Suffering Focused AI Safety
Sunday
, August 7
1. Zellerbach Hall
9:00am •
Risks and Benefits of Advanced AI
10:20am •
Creating Effective Policies
12:00pm •
Rethinking Meat and the End of Factory Farming
2:20pm •
Forecasting and Predictions
4:00pm •
Past, Present and Future of EA
5:40pm •
From Behavioral Economics to Public Policy
6:20pm •
Cass Sunstein Q&A
7:20pm •
Closing Talk
8:00pm •
Closing Photo
2. Pauley Ballroom East
9:00am •
Flowthrough Effects
9:40am •
Basic Income: The GiveDirectly Experiment
10:20am •
Aggregating Knowledge
12:00pm •
Opportunities in Science & Technology Policy
12:40pm •
Government Driven Science & Technology
2:20pm •
Data-driven movement building panel
4:00pm •
Leveraging evidence to shape government policy and programs at scale
4. Senate Chambers
9:00am •
Helping Animals with Morality or Technology?
9:20am •
Affecting the Far Future with Animal Causes
9:40am •
Upstream Altruism: applying EA principles to early-stage action
10:20am •
Research Meeting: Lightning talks
11:00am •
Concrete Problems in AI Safety
12:00pm •
CEA Research and the Institute for Effective Altruism
2:20pm •
Lightning Talks II
4:00pm •
Meat alternatives Q&A
5:40pm •
Predicting the Future of Technology
5. Tilden Room
9:00am •
Building a local EA community
10:20am •
Open Philanthropy Project Q&A
12:00pm •
Trigger Action Plans
2:20pm •
Navigating intellectual disagreement II
4:00pm •
Comparing Causes
5:40pm •
Strategy for the long-run
6. Mandrone
9:00am •
High Frequency EA Pitching
10:20am •
80,000 Hours - Speed coaching
2:20pm •
80,000 Hours - Take Action on Your Plan
4:00pm •
How to develop new hypotheses
5:40pm •
Career ideas brainstorming session
7. Bay View
9:00am •
Applied Forecasting: Improving Organisational Decision Making
10:20am •
Scalable Solutions to Mental Health
12:00pm •
Introduction to Explicit Model-building
2:20pm •
Animal Charity Evaluators Intervention Research Workshop
4:00pm •
Fermi Modeling
5:40pm •
Hacking college: How to optimize university to get valuable skills
8. Lower Sproul
1:00pm •
Lunch
e. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 5
2:00pm •
Office Hours: Institute for EA
f. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 6
1:40pm •
Office Hours: Centre for Effective Altruism
4:00pm •
Office Hours: Envision
g. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 7
11:20am •
CEA Philanthropic Advising
1:20pm •
Office Hours: SCI
2:20pm •
Office Hours: CFAR
4:20pm •
Office Hours: Feedback on EA.org
6:00pm •
Office Hours: Signal Data Science Bootcamp
h. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 8
1:00pm •
Office Hours: MIRI Researcher
4:00pm •
Office Hours: Leverage Research
4:00pm •
Office Hours: Leverage Research
6:00pm •
Office Hours: Leverage Research (open)
i. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 9
1:00pm •
Careers in Politics and Policy with Richard Parr, former Special Advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron
4:00pm •
Office Hours: Paradigm Academy
6:00pm •
Office Hours: Paradigm Academy (open)
j. Pauley Ballroom West - Table 10
11:00am •
Office Hours: Center for Effective Global Action
3:00pm •
Office Hours for GPP, CSER & CEA policy work
5:00pm •
Office Hours: 80,000 Hours Donor Q&A
k. Eshleman Hall - Room 212
10:20am •
Presentation and Q&A about FP
4:00pm •
Meta-Ethics Discussion Group
5:00pm •
Effective Outreach Strategies for EAs
l. Eshleman Hall - Room 310
12:00pm •
Applying an automated impact score to your top charities
5:00pm •
Democracy, liberty and decentralization tech e.g. Bitcoin
m. Eshleman Hall - Room 318
5:00pm •
Biomedical Research
n. Eshleman Hall - Room 338
10:20am •
Lessons from Convergence Models I - Side effects of research and ensuring your project is net good
12:00pm •
Lessons from Convergence Models II - Constructing life plans for maximizing good
4:00pm •
80K Speed Coaching
o. Eshleman Hall - Room 350
4:00pm •
80K Speed Coaching
p. Eshleman Hall - Room 250
4:00pm •
80K Speed Coaching
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