@rufuspollock & @JonahW
I would be interested in collaborating on this:
(1) co-developing a course on “Beyond Effective Altruism” / an “Introduction to the Second Renaissance for Effective Altruists”
(2) co-authoring writings on “evolving (from) EA” or “transcending and including EA”
I have previously designed three reading lists / curriculums along these lines:
The Redteaming Effective Altruism Fellowship (REAF) – I have just finished running the first iteration of this through EA Oxford.
- And I have plans to build the fellowship into the Redteaming Effective Altruism Division (READ) 'an alumni network, wider community and research initiative (continual project) for assembling, evaluating and refining critiques of actually-existing EA with the goal of constructively incorporating critical insights into reforming the movement, influencing its discourse and ultimately steering EA towards an aligned future.*
Metachyrsalis: The Metacrisis Foundations Program – I would like to run this as a ‘work-flow’ / ‘productive’ research collective (rather than simply a discussion-based reading group) for creating an initial sequence for launching the Metacrisis Forum (an adjacent, aligned social technology and digital infrastructure to the 2R Forum)
The ‘Alethia’ AI x Philosophy Fellowship (AIP) – I developed this as part of joining a unofficial special project team for BlueDot Impact. It is a critical parallel to a seminar series (of the same name) by the Cosmos Institute (that seems to be more liberal and traditional).
Edited Version of Part of an Email I sent to Catherine
I’m currently running a Redteaming Effective Altruism Fellowship (that I designed) through EA Oxford (where I’m a ‘committee member’ and ‘community-building organiser’) that ‘adopts divergent, heterodox and critical perspectives on actually-existing EA as a method of formulating internal critiques’.
I have also designed Metachrysalis: the Metacrisis Foundations Program which is more of an independent, meta-crisis oriented project (that functions as a critical alternative to and external-critique of EA) aiming ‘to harness the collective intelligence of the metacrisis community to enhance humanity’s collective knowledge of the metacrisis and facilitate collective action towards addressing it.’
I have also produced (or am in the process of producing) writings – and have larger projects-in-progress – myself that answer Rufus’ call (on the 2R Forum) for constructively critiquing and transcending Effective Altruism, Existential Risk studies and Progress studies. These are just a selection:
Short Writings
- Is There No Alternative: Singer’s World-Systems Change Cruxes & The Capitalist Realism of Effective Altruism
- Who Speaks for Earth: Sagan & Ord on Existential Risk & The End of History?
- Introducing the Human Collective Intelligence Alignment Problem: Say Hi to HI
Larger Research Projects
- Seven Concepts for Critical Systems Existential Risk (Studies)
- Disputes of Progress: A New Critical Philosophy of Progress for the 21st Century
- The Capital-AI: Capitalism as an Unaligned Artificial Superintelligence
Ultimately, my research project(s) has many affinities with the Metacrisis, Integral-EA and the Second Renaissance and so I would be interested in collaborating with Jona and Rufus on developing a course and a sequence of writings.**
The Life Itself Spring Gathering - including the Research Community Retreat - and the Mini Collaborathon Hackathon would be great opportunities to meet in-person and start collaborating on this.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing where this goes.
-Max