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Link to the talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEfASxwPxzsHlG5Rf1-4K9w/playlists

EA Hotel appears to still be having trouble raising funds:

Unfortunately our runway is down to <2 months. Donations made within the next month have particularly high marginal value

This depends a bunch on your temperament, but I find general 'mingling' - going into a large room full of people and speaking to whoever I come across - really exhausting. I've gotten a lot out of looking through the people coming on the app beforehand, seeing who I'd particularly like to meet, and then setting up times/places to meet with them in advance. It makes the experience feel less rushed and more targeted to me.

I'd just like to +1 that SEO could be very valuable.

More generally, I'd like to see more work into solving the "lost content" problem. My guess is that great posts from last year are rarely read or remembered today while they might still be rather relevant. “Best posts since you last visited” could be helpful, but so would SEO and also maybe tags.

Most but not all talks are recorded and you can watch them later. "My current plan is to largely try and meet people" sounds like a good plan to me. The meetups can be an especially good venue for this.

SurveyMonkey tracks and reports completion time and this was the average time at the point this was posted on the EA Forum (which was after several hundred respondents had already taken the Survey via other means). The median time spent, as it stands now, is still 20 minutes.

Really glad to see an organisation focused on this cause. I look forward to following your progress!

it doesn't follow that it's a good investment overall

Yes, it doesn't by itself--my point was only meant as a counterargument to your claim that the efficient market hypothesis precluded the possibility of political donations being a good investment.

Out of interested why do you think it's bad to discuss publicly?

Nice one! There are a few strong options but would need more info to give a decent suggestion, hard to say just based on the above, drop me an email at [myusername] @gmail.com and probably happy to put you in touch with some people. I’d generally advise erring against discussing potential major donors on a public forum.