Thanks for pointing out that the donor could still give to EA funds if they win the donor lottery—I forgot about that. So yeah I would agree now that the donor lottery can’t be worse than giving to EA Funds directly.
I guess a question I have is how much time should a donor who wins the donor lottery invest if they win it, and how many hours would be considered more than what an EA fund manager would spend?
Also, I do see that donors could possess idiosyncratic knowledge that fund managers don’t have, or know funding opportunities that fund managers don’t. Thanks for illustrating the example on biosecurity policy work in the Philippines. Unfortunately I don’t think that biosecurity policy work in the Philippines is that effective to work on, given that it’s probably better to do biosecurity policy work in countries with more developed research fields in biotechnology/biosecurity. I haven’t looked into or thought about it that much but those would be my views currently.
Thanks for pointing out that the donor could still give to EA funds if they win the donor lottery—I forgot about that. So yeah I would agree now that the donor lottery can’t be worse than giving to EA Funds directly.
I guess a question I have is how much time should a donor who wins the donor lottery invest if they win it, and how many hours would be considered more than what an EA fund manager would spend?
Also, I do see that donors could possess idiosyncratic knowledge that fund managers don’t have, or know funding opportunities that fund managers don’t. Thanks for illustrating the example on biosecurity policy work in the Philippines. Unfortunately I don’t think that biosecurity policy work in the Philippines is that effective to work on, given that it’s probably better to do biosecurity policy work in countries with more developed research fields in biotechnology/biosecurity. I haven’t looked into or thought about it that much but those would be my views currently.