We recommend that interested applicants watch this or read this to get an introduction to Effective Altruism. More information on Effective Altruism can be found here.
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The main component of the fellowship is a weekly 80-minute discussion in a cohort of 4-5 fellows and one facilitator. To prepare for your weekly discussion, we provide a couple of hours of materials to go through such as articles, videos and thought experiments.
The program will run for nine weeks starting the week after shopping period and finishing up before Reading Period. (This is May 31st- July 30th). The first week is also purely social + fun so you can get to know your fellowship cohort better!
Beyond the required materials, there are more materials each week in ‘Recommended Reading’ and ‘More to Explore’ - these are all optional and explore the themes of the week in more depth and breadth.
Approximate reading times are given for each of the core materials. Generally, we’d prefer you to take your time and think through the readings instead of rushing through them.
After completing this fellowship, you are invited to join the Brown Effective Altruism community. In particular we hope that if you enjoy this fellowship you take part in our In-Depth Fellowship. The In-Depth Fellowship explores many of the topics from this fellowship in considerably more depth, as well as introducing several new ideas that will now be accessible to you. It also has a greater focus on careers and tailoring discussions to the interests of the fellows.
As part of the Brown Effective Altruism community, you’ll be invited to our social events, group discussions, career workshops, and can get even more involved by doing group projects and applying for leadership roles.
**⇒ Taking ideas seriously**
Often, conversations about ideas are like recreational diversions: we enjoy batting around interesting thoughts and saying smart things, and then we go back to doing whatever we were already doing in our lives. This is a fine thing to do — but at least sometimes, we think we should be asking ourselves questions like: