Question: what exactly is CFAR doing to encourage do-gooding? Of the three listed goals, my impressions of what CFAR does seem mostly focused on the first two.
(Just one thing that came to mind, I’m sure there are others than Anna et al can talk about.)
People who are looking to do good can get—I guess they’re called scholarships? - towards the workshop price. Not only does this hopefully make those looking to do good better, more effective, it also brings those people who aren’t thinking about do-gooding as a (life choice? career?) into an environment surrounded by people who are passionate about doing good. The conversations that go on around them are extremely skewed towards that kind of thing, and I think that’s likely to be very valuable (and not just to those unfamiliar with EA—I know several people were inspired by some of those conversations, and some of them came out of them with ideas that they’re collaborating on).
Question: what exactly is CFAR doing to encourage do-gooding? Of the three listed goals, my impressions of what CFAR does seem mostly focused on the first two.
(Just one thing that came to mind, I’m sure there are others than Anna et al can talk about.) People who are looking to do good can get—I guess they’re called scholarships? - towards the workshop price. Not only does this hopefully make those looking to do good better, more effective, it also brings those people who aren’t thinking about do-gooding as a (life choice? career?) into an environment surrounded by people who are passionate about doing good. The conversations that go on around them are extremely skewed towards that kind of thing, and I think that’s likely to be very valuable (and not just to those unfamiliar with EA—I know several people were inspired by some of those conversations, and some of them came out of them with ideas that they’re collaborating on).