Nathan Young

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@NathanpmYoung
Building forecasting question generation non-profit, initially funded by the FTX future fund
Forecasting consultant, Zeitgeist, a crypto prediction market (a betting site with extra features)

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Project name	Thumb to upvote	Notes
Forecasting group chat	👍👍	A better collaborative discussion about forecasting.Forecasting group chat and a prototype question generation site.
Approval voting in the UK	👍👍👍
Worm Wars	👍	Trying to understand the Worm Wars, a disagreement in global health philanthropy about the effectiveness of deworming. Worm Wars discussion doc
Forecasting Question Generation	👍	Wireframes
Effective altruism introduction summary	👍
Coronavirus Tech Handbook
Metaculus forecasting tools and feature suggestions		Metaculus Forecasting Tools
My novella	👍	Very rough draft. Happy to hear comments Second Chances
Write articles on different methods of improving institutions in the UK
Good Policy Ideas subreddit
Election Tech Handbook
EA Job Hunting Discord
Workflow tools upvoting board
Intervention ranking	👍	Alpha version of tool to rank different inventions using squiggle modelsEA criticism contest intervenions EV ranking

Director - Forecasting Question Generation Platform

Jan 2022 - Present
Forecasting platforms have bottleneck around creating high quality questions
Using my experience in collaborative text generation to build community question generation non-profit to create high value questions
Funded $182k by FTX Future Fund

Head of Forecasting - Zeitgeist

June 2022 - Present
Ensuring launch markets are high quality
Supporting “Fire the CEO” markets to integrate futarchy, a new governance mechanism built around prediction markets
Managing question generation projects

Funding Delivery Manager - Freeports, UK Civil Service

Company Director and Consultant

2016 – Present
Website development, community management, open-data
Self-motivated and self-managing
Learned customer management, business strategy and coding.
Major client, Bluesky Certification, now a significant player in the UK door and window certification market.

Project, Community Management — Turing-RSS Joint Lab

June 2021 – Aug 2021
Supporting community of 20 data scientists, with external talks
Publicise work of the lab in government and epidemiological community
Maintain knowledge between the laboratory and the Joint Biosecurity Centre within government

Project, Founder and Director — The Coronavirus Tech Handbook

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019
Built a list of individuals and communities ranked according to the ease with which we could contact them. Our team has since increased this to over 14 million people and organisations
RSPB has taken our team’s recommendations forward in their Big Green Data strategy
Project managed a team of 4

Residential Fellow — Newspeak House

July 2019 – July 2020
Researching systems change in civil society
Helped create electiontechhandbook.uk, containing 150 tools and a community of >200 political technologists. This new community recently held their post-election debrief to measure impact

Always happy to chat, get in touch at mail@nathanpmyoung.com or @NathanpmYoung

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[1] I prefer to think about outcomes rather than projects, but it’s a harder word to understand