benkuhn comments on Effective Altruism Summit 2014 - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Ben_LandauTaylor 21 March 2014 08:30PM

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Comment author: benkuhn 20 March 2014 12:57:11AM *  9 points [-]

Definitely attend this if you can! I went last year and it was an amazing experience. Highly, highly recommended. (Yes, even more highly than donating the price of tickets to your favorite effective charity.)

EDIT: also, feel free to ask me stuff about the participant experience, either here or by private message.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 28 March 2014 06:20:15AM 2 points [-]

Yes; I totally loved attending last year.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 20 March 2014 07:37:27AM *  1 point [-]

How did it compare to CFAR? I thought CFAR was a bit overrated myself. (Maybe because I'm already in the Bay Area and have lots of local EA/LWer friends I tend to get less out of these events?)

Comment author: benkuhn 20 March 2014 05:51:27PM 3 points [-]

I don't think they're comparable? I enjoyed the EA summit for different reasons than I enjoyed CFAR. (I had already been to a CFAR workshop by the time of the summit, and was still very happy I went.)