by Four years ago, when I joined the team administrating Felicifia, I had just started medical school. Seth Baum was retiring his Felicifia blog, and was looking for a couple of young upstarts to keep things going. I had only just started reading Felicifia, and had hardly known what utilitarianism meant a year or two before. However, I knew that connecting people who wanted to improve the world was a good thing, and that if it wasn’t, then nothing was. Alongside Arepo, with technical support from James Evans, on the servers of David Pearce, we managed to at least keep things chugging along.
Over those four years, we've seen utilitarians connect to each other more than ever before, and we've seen awesome work done by utilitarians and others throughout the emerging effective altruism movement.
Now the time has come for me to leave Felicifia with its current administrators Arepo and Brian Tomasik.
At the end of this year, this medical degree that I had only just begun four years ago will finally come to an end. One of my favourite jobs at felicifia was guiding young utilitarians into any new life stage, such as the start of their high-school certificate, or the choice of an undergraduate degree. Now, it’s my turn to enter a new life stage. As I start to work as a doctor, I will gain a different composition of resources, as I lose time, I will gain skills, and finances. The decisions that I will have to make as an altruist will change. Where exactly my altruistic comparative advantage might lie is not yet clear. But as I stop providing technical support to felicifia, I expect to depend on effective altruists for help and advice more than ever.
I’ve loved to get to know the likes of Ruairi, Rehoot, YBoris, PeterHurford, Nap, DanielLC, Faithlessgod, Brian Tomasik, Traderjoe, EmbraceUnity, Jesper Ostman, Daniel Dorado, Pablo Stafforini, Utilitymonster, Mike Retriever, Ladymorgana, Gedusa, Ubuntu, Richard Pearce, Tog, Jesper Ostman. Thanks everyone. Thanks Seth, James, David, Arepo and Brian.
I think the time will come to evaluate the utility of the continued operation of this website and the opportunity cost but for now, I am to understand that Arepo and Brian Tomasik seek further support in this role. If anyone thinks they might be able to offer some support, including some mildly technical work with php, html and mysql, please let them know by private-messaging Brian.
It’s been an excellent four years. May I, and may we all learn from them, in order to do better from now on!
Ryan Carey
Over those four years, we've seen utilitarians connect to each other more than ever before, and we've seen awesome work done by utilitarians and others throughout the emerging effective altruism movement.
Now the time has come for me to leave Felicifia with its current administrators Arepo and Brian Tomasik.
At the end of this year, this medical degree that I had only just begun four years ago will finally come to an end. One of my favourite jobs at felicifia was guiding young utilitarians into any new life stage, such as the start of their high-school certificate, or the choice of an undergraduate degree. Now, it’s my turn to enter a new life stage. As I start to work as a doctor, I will gain a different composition of resources, as I lose time, I will gain skills, and finances. The decisions that I will have to make as an altruist will change. Where exactly my altruistic comparative advantage might lie is not yet clear. But as I stop providing technical support to felicifia, I expect to depend on effective altruists for help and advice more than ever.
I’ve loved to get to know the likes of Ruairi, Rehoot, YBoris, PeterHurford, Nap, DanielLC, Faithlessgod, Brian Tomasik, Traderjoe, EmbraceUnity, Jesper Ostman, Daniel Dorado, Pablo Stafforini, Utilitymonster, Mike Retriever, Ladymorgana, Gedusa, Ubuntu, Richard Pearce, Tog, Jesper Ostman. Thanks everyone. Thanks Seth, James, David, Arepo and Brian.
I think the time will come to evaluate the utility of the continued operation of this website and the opportunity cost but for now, I am to understand that Arepo and Brian Tomasik seek further support in this role. If anyone thinks they might be able to offer some support, including some mildly technical work with php, html and mysql, please let them know by private-messaging Brian.
It’s been an excellent four years. May I, and may we all learn from them, in order to do better from now on!
Ryan Carey
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