I have some things I do like and then some clarifications.
I like that we are trying new mechanisms. If we were going to try and be a community that lasts we need to build ways of working that don’t have the failure modes that others have had in the past. I’m not particularly optimistic about this specific donation election, but I like that we are doing it. For this reason I’ve donated a little and voted.
I don’t think this specific donation election mechanism adds a lot. Money already gets allocated on a kind of voting system—you choose how you spend it. Gathering everyone’s votes and then reallocating means some people have decided they’d rather spend towards the median, though that data was available anyway. That said, I did spend quite a lot of time thinking about how I was gonna give (it’s strange to me that I find voting wrong worse than giving my own money wrong)
That said, perhaps it will codify discussions of impact, which I think are good. I’d like more quantification/ comparison. Are there some nice graphs somewhere of where Giving What We Can gifts go to?
I don’t think that election offers much better decisions. If I want someone I trust to help me decide where to give, I can already do that.
I don’t particularly like the “I donated” “I voted” tags, but I never like that kind of thing.
On balance I thought it was good and want more stuff like this.
Why I like the donation election
I have some things I do like and then some clarifications.
I like that we are trying new mechanisms. If we were going to try and be a community that lasts we need to build ways of working that don’t have the failure modes that others have had in the past. I’m not particularly optimistic about this specific donation election, but I like that we are doing it. For this reason I’ve donated a little and voted.
I don’t think this specific donation election mechanism adds a lot. Money already gets allocated on a kind of voting system—you choose how you spend it. Gathering everyone’s votes and then reallocating means some people have decided they’d rather spend towards the median, though that data was available anyway. That said, I did spend quite a lot of time thinking about how I was gonna give (it’s strange to me that I find voting wrong worse than giving my own money wrong)
That said, perhaps it will codify discussions of impact, which I think are good. I’d like more quantification/ comparison. Are there some nice graphs somewhere of where Giving What We Can gifts go to?
I don’t think that election offers much better decisions. If I want someone I trust to help me decide where to give, I can already do that.
I don’t particularly like the “I donated” “I voted” tags, but I never like that kind of thing.
On balance I thought it was good and want more stuff like this.