Update: This post is out-of-date. YEA now has its own website, where updates will be posted on various things we do. The website is also out-of-date, but to a lesser extent.
I’m starting a club!
The name of the club is “Yale Effective Altruists”, or “YEA”. It exists for three big reasons:
- To help college students use their time to make other people’s lives better in a manner as effective as possible.
- To introduce more college students to the ideas and methods of the “effective altruism” (EA) movement.
- To help the wider EA movement complete more projects and put more ideas into practice, for the good of humanity.
Members of YEA will:
- Meet to discuss the current state of the world, and realistic ways we might improve it
- Plan and develop projects that might improve the world (more on that later)
- Talk to cool people who like improving the world, some of whom might be famous
- Learn how to persuade people (useful in general) and get expert advice on choosing classes, careers, and more
There will be one recommended meeting each week (30 minutes or less), plus a variety of projects to work on and talks to attend if you’d like to be more involved. We’ll also hang out together (for more, see “good parties” below).
If you’re already curious, you can sign up to learn more!
(I’ll also give you the link at the end of this post.)