Simon Holm
Bio
Participation5
Hi! Simon here from Stockholm, Sweden - math graduate, semi-professional musical theatre performer, and indecisive generalist.
I am currently exploring personal fit to find out how I can make a sustainable social impact - right now, I am working as a consultant in information risk management.
I have previously worked with university group support (about which you can read more here) and operations at EA Sweden and Ge Effektivt, and am in contact with the local community in Stockholm. I have also undergone facilitator training for CEA's virtual programs, although I currently haven't facilitated any cohorts other than those during my EAS employment.
I want to learn more about the role of arts in society, rationality, complex systems and applied category theory, economics, machine learning, cybersecurity, community and norm engineering!
Feel free to reach out to me on Facebook, LinkedIn, or send me an email at simon.holmm97@gmail.com if something here sparks your interest!
How others can help me
I would love to hear how you reason around the role EA plays in your life. I would also be keen on hearing a recommendation of your current favorite book or unconventional opinion!
How I can help others
I am in general happy to discuss any deliberations you have on personal decisions, including career or be a welcoming face if you are new to the movement and have uncertainties you'd like to brief with someone.
I have some skills in the below areas and could share my experiences:
*Writing (research summaries, editing, proofreading, interviewing)
*Teaching/Group moderation/Discussion facilitation
*Entertainment (song-writing, singing, dancing, acting)
Posts 5
Comments19
Hi medinot - thanks a lot for writing this up and contributing to the forum!
I never heard of artificial wombs before other than the “The Pod Generation” movie and I think the idea is cool.
What I would love to see when you are making such a big decision as whether you should dedicate your career to it is a Theory of Change (have you heard about this?) to make your assumptions about why this would be impactful more explicit.
Spontaneous questions that arise for me are: what are the concrete harms with population collapse? How will research be conducted to find the effects of artificial wombs on the children born from them? How will the economics of this technology look like (and could it give rise to inequality)? Are there more benefits to artificial wombs that we don’t think of?
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Not comfortable answering your second question :)
Thanks for sharing these perspectives Rory! On an emotional level, combining what you are saying with the thought of there being others that are also trying their best to e.g. save starfish, makes me think "Maybe, just maybe, we can solve the whole problem" - and that gives me both inspiration and hope :)
Thanks a lot for your input here Sarah! These are all good points, some of which were not obvious to me as a user, for sure.
I'd be curious what would happen if you would run some tiny experiment on breaking the unified space, and I don't think structural siloing necessarily would correlate with epistemic siloing (even though I get that many posts do not fit single categories and that it would be a difficult meta-question around what categories would be appropriate).
To me, a unified space can create the feeling of having a discussion with lots of people, which I find more difficult than if there is a smaller discussion group.
If you view the forum from a UX lens and put it in the context of different categories of online community infrastructures (e.g. Facebook/Twitter feed of short posts, Discord/Slack channel-based, Quora/StackExchange/Reddit upvote/question-based and more traditional forums with defined categories/aubcategories and threads), what do you think are the pros and cons of how the Forum is currently structured and how does that facilitate (or not facilitate) what you would like to see happen in online EA community building? Would also be curious to hear how you would compare the Forum to that of the many existing EA Slack channels.
I would be super-keen on reading more essays exploring friendship from a well-being/making-the-world-a-better-place point-of-view, and I do think there is something to say there with regards to community building, too!
In any case, I found this post to be a thoughtful reminder for my personal goals with regards to relationships. And thanks for making me laugh! Not something I expect from an ordinary Tuesday evening *hat off*.
Thanks for writing this post! I would love to see how elements of what is reported here could potentially improve CEA's virtual introductory program and be more discussed among/taught to community builders on a consistent basis. I look forward to digesting these topics more properly to see how it can benefit the work I do as university group supporter.
For the sake of using the handbook for an intro fellowship - where is the "earlier estimate of your future income" located, if anywhere, in the handbook? Does it refer to some exercise or to a graph in one of the articles on economic inequality? And if there is no such thing, perhaps an alternative phrasing or including the estimate in the exercise would be great!
Yep, makes sense. I don't have much understanding on either the likelihood of recession in this scenario or consequences of it; but it seems good that not everyone relies on AGI automation for this to be solved :)