Wow, thanks so much for looking into this! If you have the time, I'm also curious about the demographic breakdown of those who listed Sam Harris.

This is great, thank you for all of your work on it! In future iterations, do you think you might look at which podcasts in particular are people's entry point? We've seen an influx of people entering EA NYC via Sam Harris over the past several months and I'm curious what the podcast breakdown looks like and what lessons we can take from it.

The age-old Bodhi on Mulberry vs. Buddha Bodai on Mott battle has officially made its way to the Forum!

These are great updates, thank you for all your work on them! I'm especially excited about being able to search for posts by chronology. Two notes:

1. I would like to be able to search for a phrase, rather than just one word, using quotation marks like you can on Google. E.g. When I search "united nations" and look by time posted, I get a number of results with just the word "nations" and for "New York City" I get results for "new" and "city." Being able to search with quotation marks around the full phrase would be very useful.

2. If you do add personalized recommendations to the front page, please only make it a small part of the page and very clear that it is user-specific. I like that I know what other users are generally seeing when they come to the Forum and I'm annoyed by e.g. news sites that show me overly catered results.

We’ve been experimenting with recommendations on post pages first, and may also consider personalized recommendations on the Frontpage.

This is a frequent event format in the warm weather for EA NYC, in addition to our annual 150-person picnic (that is more unconference-adjacent). The main issues we've run into are:
• Public spaces that close by a certain time that is not easily discerned
• External noise and difficult hearing announcements, especially if we are trying to do lightning talks
• Inclement weather
• Dogs descending on our snacks
Overall though, I think they're great!

We've also found people really enjoy large group walks, even just through a portion of the city. We had >50 people join a walk through lower Manhattan one winter. Compared to a picnic, it's easy to quite literally walk away from a conversation.

How was the list of universities determined?

This comment made me very sad. I've gone back and forth on writing a full response (or standalone post) on why I find Elizabeth's posts so troubling, so thank you for giving me the push I needed to invest the effort into doing so. For now, I'll say: From a health standpoint alone, there are many drawbacks to eating salmons and there are alternative methods to improving whichever health concerns that led you to eat them. From an ethics standpoint, eating aquatic animals is among the most harmful choices you can make. If EA motivated you to stop eating animals to begin with, I hope you reconsider this decision.

It recounts some of the events referenced in the post, but I don't know whether it recounts Dawn's version of the events, or the court's best guess at how events transpired.

You linked to a document filed by the defendant's attorneys that is an objection to an earlier filing by the plaintiff's attorneys. It is the version of events Singer's attorneys are portraying to the court.

For those less familiar, the US civil legal system is very messy and varies by state. I personally don't consider it a great way to understand a situation. But for those interested, it looks like this is the link to the full case docket (or at least what is public) and this is the initial complaint filed by the plaintiff (i.e. where Dawn's attorneys tell her version of events). You can tell which side filed something by the signatory in the upper left of the first page.

Thank you both @Jason and @Richard Y Chappell for explaining! That makes sense!