Designing who comes event, gathering, website, grants program, company
The most important component of an event, party, company is “who is there”?
- How is gatekeeping done?
- Clusters around a particular topic
- Prediction markets for Manifold; rationality for ACX
- Be careful where you advertise! E.g. animal advocacy
- Public grant programs on the internet get some chaff
- Reviewing applications
- Standard, but also kind of unfun for everyone involved
- Reverse: reach out to people who you actively want
- How we did Manifest
- Open meetups:
- Taco Tuesday
- Nice to be truly open & inclusive, serves some purposes well (really helps people on the margins)
- Scott Alexander on “come even if you’re not the typical ACX reader” <3
Events
- Should a conference like EAG be open?
- Scale of events from small to large: hangout to party to wedding
- Art of Gathering famously tells you to exclude people…
- Adverse selection
Websites
- Websites are default open?
- Interesting exception: Alignment forum, can read but can’t write
Funding, grants
- YC is open for anyone to apply to, vs VC which is very network-based. Why do accelerators take applications while VCs do not?
Companies
- Manifold hiring
- Traditionally: hire slowly fire quickly. Companies are very exclusive.
- What would a radically inclusive company look like?
- Anyone can pitch in as a volunteer, rise up as their contributions get better, eventually start getting paid? cf Gavriel at 1DaySooner
- Open source ecosystem? Crypto ecosystem?
Countries
- Immigration, obv
Movements
- EA
- The movement I’m most familiar with. Different sides: university & meetup groups try a bit to be big tent, but otoh trying for EA jobs can seem very exclusive/competitive
- Catholic
- “All are welcome”