Berke
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Berke is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 10, 2022 and April 10, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “I am Berke, a philosophy major interested in Effective Altruism from Istanbul”; “I am Berke, a philosophy major interested in Effective Altruism from Istanbul, Turkey”; “Contact: Berke (berkedubomont@gmail.com)“. It most often appears alongside ACX, Bay Area, Detroit.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 10, 2022
- Last seen: April 10, 2022
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- Bay Area (2 shared issues)
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- Detroit (2 shared issues)
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- India (2 shared issues)
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- Istanbul (2 shared issues)
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- LessWrong (2 shared issues)
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- London (2 shared issues)
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- Oxford (2 shared issues)
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- Substack (2 shared issues)
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- Turkey (2 shared issues)
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- red porches (1 shared issues)
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- 11:11 Cafe (1 shared issues)
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#97: Start An EA Club At A Turkish University I am Berke, a philosophy major interested in Effective Altruism from Istanbul, Turkey. I am interested in EA since 2019, and currently I am a research volunteer at Kafessiz, an organization working to end the use battery cages for hens in Turkey. EA doesn’t have much presence neither in Istanbul nor the country in general. There are no EA clubs at colleges, and I intend to start the first one at my college. We plan to do seminar programmes (fellowships) similar to the ones in Oxford and increase EA outreach at both our college and in online Turkish language platforms. If we find enough people interested, we plan to start a fellowship program in one or two months and a few other things. If you’re interested you can contact me at berke.celik@boun.edu.tr . What would be achieved in the name of utility if you fund an EA Society at a college you've never heard of? For certain EA causes, there is a lot to be achieved in Turkey. For example, the number of hens in battery cages in Turkey is something around 100 million. Establishing a non-trival EA presence at my college would be good first step because it is the most selective college in the country. In Turkey you enter college via a central exam, and 70% of the 1000 people who scored highest in the exam chose to be here, and this is not a flex, I am just trying to say:If one wants Effective Altruist ideas to spread in a country of 80 million, or at least among the future Turkish elite, my college is a good place to start.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY Contact: Berke (berkedubomont@gmail.com) Date: May 22 Time: 12:30 PM Coordinates: https://plus.codes/8GHF22V6+8R Location: We'll meet up at w.Bi Coffee, and go to Yıldız Parkı. Email me if you want to come, we might change the venue if it's too far away from you. Notes: Possible participants should definitely mail me, Istanbul is giant and if people say they live too far from the location I want to meet up at, we might choose a more reasonable location.
Inline links: https://plus.codes/8GHF22V6+8R
BERKELEY, CA Contact: Mingyuan (meetupsmingyuan@gmail.com) Date: May 7 Time: 1:00 PM Coordinates: https://plus.codes/849VVPCP+VP Location: UC Berkeley, the lawn just north of Free Speech Bikeway and east of the traffic circle Group info: The Bay Area has lots of events, announced on the mailing list and Facebook