On top of Jason's point, this argument presupposes that animals are food and therefore not worthy of much if any moral concern, but there are many reasons to think animals are worthy of moral concern.

This is an excellent post, and I'm really grateful for RP's work on these topics. I appreciate that this post is both opinionated but measured, flagging where the reader will want to inspect their own views and how that might affect various models' recommendations.

Really happy to see this! Thanks for getting it going again :) 

We chose brand and funding as themes in part because attendees flagged these as two of the biggest challenges facing the community. Sorry, I should've made that clearer.

Thanks for resurfacing this take, Guy.

There's a trade-off here, but I think some attendees who can provide valuable input wouldn't attend if their name was shared publicly and that would make the event less valuable for the community. 

That said, perhaps one thing we can do is emphasise the benefits of sharing their name (increases trust in the event/leadership, greater visibility for the community about direction/influence) when they RSVP for the event, I'll note that for next time as an idea.

Thanks! I think this note explains the gap:

Note that we have a few attendees at this year’s event who are specialists in one of our focus areas rather than leaders of an EA meta organization or team (though some attendees are both).

We were not trying to optimise the attendee list for connectedness or historical engagement with the community, but rather who can contribute to making progress on our core themes; brand and funding. When you see what roles these attendees have, I think it's fairly evident why we invited them, given this lens.

I'll also note that I think it's healthy for there to be people joining for this event who haven't bene in the community as long as you have. They can bring new perspectives, and offer expertise the community / organisational leaders has been lacking.

Thanks, it wasn't open at the time I posted this, but I've added the link now.

We're not currently planning to run another GCR-focused EAG, but we do plan on continuing to investigate what other types of events we could run, including cause-specific (e.g. GCR-focused) events.

I think this post might benefit from some commentary, caveats and warnings about how to engage in politics sensibly e.g.

• Campaign finance rules
• How non-Americans can and can't engage
• PR risks to EA from doing this sort of thing

I don't have any expertise here, but I don't think this community will handle this all sensibly by default (see err 2022).

If you have some experience in a relevant field, you could also consider offering to speak at an event :) When I was organising my university group, I know I was pretty nervous about reaching out to people working in EA-aligned careers. I expect having alumni speak might make those career paths particularly salient ("I used to be exactly like you, and now I do this").