HORIZON IMPACT LAB
Increase your impact and connect with like-minded people
Do you care about doing good? Care about having a meaningful career? Care about effectiveness? Are you working in, or want to work in, a related field? Through this free programme, you'll learn the key ideas of Effective Altruism with a small group of other people who care deeply about improving the lives of others in the most effective ways they can. Guided by an experienced facilitator, you will learn new concepts, frameworks and counter intuitive ideas to help you have more impact in your career, donations and other projects.
Next available session:
22 Apr (Wed) 19:00-21:30
Application Deadline: 18 Apr
About the instructor
Kenneth Chan, Director of EAHK
I've had the privilege of co-leading EAHK for the past four years, giving me a deep understanding of our unique methodologies through thorough study and personal application in our GiveWise project. I also bring a decade of experience in education, grounded in both practical classroom teaching and curriculum development, equipping me with the tools to ensure an engaging workshop. My role is to facilitate a collaborative environment where we can explore ideas, connect theory to practice, and support each other’s growth.
With limited resources,
how can we do the most good?
Doing good better is one of the defining challenges of our time. Given resource constraints, it is crucial that we make the most effective use of what we have in order to create the greatest positive impact possible. And this is essentially what the Horizon Programme is all about: The Horizon Programme helps you think about how to do good effectively and helps you to reflect on how to maximise your potential to make a difference.​
The Horizon Impact Lab is a free workshop bringing together core reading, interactive group discussions and activities, and more. We explore topics including the effectiveness mindset, global health/poverty, animal welfare, artificial Intelligence, etc., and how to get involved in careers contributing to some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Dates and times
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The Horizon Impact Lab is 2.5 hours long, a condensed format covering the fundamental concepts of Effective Altruism, involving group activities and discussions.
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​22nd April (Wednesday) 19:00-21:30
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​The Hive Kennedy Town, Cheung Hing Industrial Building, 12P Smithfield, Kennedy Town
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Completely FREE​​​
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Agenda and Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the workshop, you will...
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Know:
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The definition of scope insensitivity
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The definition of the scout mindset
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Differences in impact are huge
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The definition of existential risks, existential catastrophe, longtermism
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The future is vast and humanity’s potential is large
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Future people deserve moral patienthood
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Now is a point of unusual influence over humanity’s future
Understand:
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The fundamental principles of EA's effectiveness mindset, including impartiality
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The need to overcome scope insensitivity
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Our intuitions are often wrong
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Our intuitions about frequency, probability and scale are often wrong.
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Our intuitions about global health are often wrong
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The moral imperative toward cost-effectiveness in global health
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The possibility of an ongoing moral catastrophe
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The reasoning for axiological strong longtermism (ASL)
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Some arguments for/against strong longtermism
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Implications for international and Asian philanthropy
Be able to:
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Make more calibrated estimates
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Do expected value calculations
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Make Fermi estimates
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Use the ITN framework to think about cause prioritisation
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Explain in brief the reasoning for axiological strong longtermism (ASL)