If you’re interested in Tufts EA, please reach out to the organizers Safal ([email protected]), Nathan ([email protected]), or **Jesse ([email protected]).**
👋 Welcome
We’re Tufts Effective Altruism, a student group that tries to make the world better by helping students understand and tackle the world’s most pressing problems as effectively as possible, especially by choosing impactful careers. This page has the details on all upcoming events and programs we have planned.
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📮 Contact Us
💬 Weekly Meetings
We meet Fridays at 4:15 in the JCC 5th Floor Common Room for workshops/discussions on EA-related topics. Here are some topics we’ll cover during these meetings:
Career Planning Workshop
The Expanding Moral Circle Discussion
Human Challenge Trials
Comparing Human vs. Animal-Centered Charities
Notion Workshop
✨ Other things we might do
Here are some other ideas for later on in the fall. Let us know in the feedback form at the top of any of them sound particularly good or bad, or if you have your own event ideas to share!
- Application “Workshop”: applying to internships sucks! But for some reason, if you take a very ugh-y task and turn it into a “workshop” people are more likely to do it. So, at some point in mid-semester, some of us will gather, briefly share some impactful internship opportunities, and spend a few hours writing applications. It’s an awful activity, but hopefully it will be better done with friends, good food, and prior-commitment.
- “Don’t look up” or other movie night
- Global Governance Constitutional Convention: we could host a little mock constitutional convention where people think about how to structure international governance institutions for the long-term future, or how to govern space settlement.
- Debates: short debates on controversial questions in EA, such as…
- Is AI governance important?
- Is creating happy people good, or neutral?
- Are synthetic pathogens a significant extinction risk?
- Is being vegan an effective way of helping farmed animals?
- Is interpretability a promising research path for AI safety?
- How likely would civilization be to recover if 90% of the population died?
- Prioritarianism vs. egalitarianism vs. negative utilitarianism vs. preference utilitarianism vs. hedonic utilitarianism?
- Should EAs focus more on climate change?
- Which are more impactful: the best human or animal-centered charities?
- Does donating to longtermism/community building do any good anymore?
- Rationality/forecasting workshops: learn/practice methods to better understand the very messy world with our very messy minds, such as…
- Calibration training: learn what a 10% or 50% or 95% chance feels like, so that ~10% of the time you say there’s a 10% chance of something happening, it happens.
- Bayesian reasoning: or how to properly update when encountering new evidence. We’re naturally pretty bad at this, and it’s where a lot of cognitive biases come from.
- Identifying cruxes: a tool for getting to the bottom of disagreements, changing your mind, and staying honest with yourself about why you believe what you do.
Past events