Upcoming events.
Upcoming events.
We host regular socials every week with specially-themed events every second Saturday of the month. Please check back here or on the homepage regularly for events! If you are interested in regular event updates, sign up for our newsletter!
Speaker: Amy Huang from GFI
Location: Wheeler 30 (not wheeler 108 like usual)
Note: the speaker event will happen from 4-5pm, and the general meeting/social will happen from 5-6pm.
Description: Industrial animal agriculture sits at the intersection of many of the most pressing challenges facing human and non-human animal kind. To alleviate these pressures in the wake of rising global meat demand, we must accelerate the development of alternative proteins that compete with their conventional animal counterparts on the basis of taste, price, and convenience. Join the Good Food Institute’s Amy Huang to learn more about alternative proteins and the role students play in driving forward this food system transformation.
Bio: Amy Huang is the Associate Director of Scientific Ecosystems at the Good Food Institute. In this role, Amy oversees GFI’s efforts to transform universities into engines for alternative protein research and education. Amy has a background in global health, education, effective altruism, and design thinking. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and is thrilled to be devoting her career to accelerating alternative proteins in the service of human, animal, and planetary health.
AI Estimation with Stanford
Join the AI Safety Student Initiative and Stanford’s EA group to participate in an Estimathon – a game in which your team will have 30 minutes to work on 13 estimation problems and try to beat Stanford teams doing the same. Teams will be made during the event!
Location: Social Sciences Building, Room 40
Philosophy Forum Presentation by Owen
Owen Murphy from EAB will be giving a talk on some interesting philosophical issues relevant to Effective Altruism including Moral Uncertainty, Population Ethics, and Longtermism. The first half of the talk will be a presentation and the second half will be Q&A. Come by if you want to learn about some of the difficult philosophical questions facing effective altruism.
Global Warming Workshop + Contest Launch
Effective Altruism at Berkeley is hosting a workshop on Monday the 26th of September to launch its Global Warning contest -- a contest with a $1000 prize pool. Submissions are short essays on the way climate change and other large scale problems will interact over the coming 20 years. We'll be meeting from 5-7 PM in Wheeler 108 for the workshop and providing a vegan dinner. During the workshop, students from various clubs are invited to come together and do an idea generation exercise. Randomly picking problems from climate change and other large scale issues (farmed animal agriculture, risks from emerging technologies, etc.), students will discuss the way the problems interact and impact the world together. You don't need to come to the workshop to participate in the contest, but we'd love to see you there!
Open Stage Night
Join us for our open stage night!! All Berkeley students and members of the broader EA community are welcome.
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Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1432813320475632?ref=newsfeed
Aaron Tucker, Caroline Jeanmarie, Jon Ward: Value Alignment Speaker Series
Early Career and Educational Guidance from Experts