Toby Tremlett🔹

Content Manager @ CEA
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Hello! I'm Toby. I'm Content Manager at CEA. I work with the Online Team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more. 

Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects. You can find a bit of my own creative output on my blog, and my podcast feed.

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I'm concerned that it will be hard to draw this one without implying that the mosquito nets are being used for fishing... stay tuned. 

Thanks Elliot! Good question- it is now Funding Strategy Week. 
I think the problem is that its very easy to assume people have the context that you do- so we would have assumed that people expected to see a post about Funding Diversification instead of Funding Strategy. But realistically most readers probably hadn't memorised the name of our mini-event. I'll post a quick take when I've got a minute, to make this clearer. 

That's lovely Hans! Perhaps @NickLaing might have takes on your measurement question?
Thanks for joining the EA Forum. 
I'm Toby, the Content Manager for the Forum (I run events, write newsletters, and talk with authors about their work). 
Let me know if you have any questions about EA, or using the Forum. 

Thanks for thinking about this Jason! Lots of good ideas here. 

FWIW financial allocation was an attempt to get a more precise debate after several users reported the "more of a priority" framing of the AI Welfare debate as being a bit confusing. 

I think it's generally nice to be tracking something relatively unified along the X axis, but that could just be strength of agreement, as long as users agree on the meaning of the debate statement. 

The season idea is cool, though I'd probably prefer to do a more spaced out season, with the debates at very least a few weeks apart. Some authors might want to contribute to multiple debates, and writing a post a week is a bit of a large ask. It'd be great to have the topics published in advance though, so that people can start thinking earlier. 

Good question! This has been on my mind - yes, in the future we will find a way to show debate week banners after the event (had a dream about it last night- but the design in my dream was very ugly). For now, I'll ask a dev if I can get a screenshot to put in a quick take and link here. 

Didn't realise I might be implying we didn't by posting this- makes sense! Collectively, CEA does have a great network- writing a quick take was a way to cast the net a bit wider, and gauge enthusiasm. 
 

Me too! The two broad categories of ideas I've had are basically 
1. Key cause-prio debates- especially ones which have been had over many years and many posts, but haven't really been summarised/ focused into one place (like those you list)
2. Debates about tactics/ methodology. For example: "We should invest more heavily in animal sentience research than corporate campaigns". That's a rough example, but the idea would be to do a debate where people would have to get fairly fine-grained in cost-effectiveness thinking before they could vote. I doubt we would get as much engagement, but engagement may be particularly valuable if the question is well posed. 

This was suggested in CEA slack as well- It'll be on the list of possible improvements (I think it's a good idea). 

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