For example, when you inherit money might be a good time to make a significant donation: if the money isn’t part of your usual revenue stream, you might not need all of it.
This does seems like a good idea to me, but I think Generation Pledge might already be doing something like that? (That said, I don’t know much about them, and I don’t necessarily think that one org doing ~X means no other org should do ~X.)
Also, for people thinking about this broader idea of potentially setting up pledges (or whatever) that cover things GWWC isn’t designed for, it may be useful to check out A List of EA Donation Pledges (GWWC, etc).
It could be cool to have a point person for an area who does things like: chats to people considering moving into that area (to help them decide), regularly checks in with people working in the area (to support them in their journey), and connects people who could productively collaborate.
I know very little about Animal Advocacy Careers, but this sounds like the sort of thing they might do? And if they don’t do it, then maybe they could start doing so for the animal space (which could be useful directly and also could provide a model others could learn from)? And if they raise strong specific reasons to be inclined against doing that (rather than just reasons why it’s not currently their top priority), that could be useful to learn from as well.
But I think that pressure is ultimately counterproductive, because I think we’ll only be able to do the best we can if we consider a broad array of options and think about them carefully.
Yeah, I think it’d be pretty terrible if people took EA’s focus on prioritisation, critical thinking, etc. as a reason to not raise ideas that might turn out to be uninteresting, low-quality, low-priority, or whatever. It seems best to have a relatively low bar for raising an idea (along with appropriate caveats, expressions of uncertainty, etc.), even if we want to keep the bar for things we spend lots of resources on quite high. We’ll find better priorities if we start with a broad pool of options.
(See also babble and prune [full disclosure: I don’t know if I’ve actually read any of those posts].)
(Obviously some screening is needed before even raising an idea—we won’t literally say any random sequence of syllables, and we should probably not bother writing about every idea that seemed potentially promising for a moment but not after a minute of thought. But it basically seems)
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This does seems like a good idea to me, but I think Generation Pledge might already be doing something like that? (That said, I don’t know much about them, and I don’t necessarily think that one org doing ~X means no other org should do ~X.)
Also, for people thinking about this broader idea of potentially setting up pledges (or whatever) that cover things GWWC isn’t designed for, it may be useful to check out A List of EA Donation Pledges (GWWC, etc).
I know very little about Animal Advocacy Careers, but this sounds like the sort of thing they might do? And if they don’t do it, then maybe they could start doing so for the animal space (which could be useful directly and also could provide a model others could learn from)? And if they raise strong specific reasons to be inclined against doing that (rather than just reasons why it’s not currently their top priority), that could be useful to learn from as well.
Yeah, I think it’d be pretty terrible if people took EA’s focus on prioritisation, critical thinking, etc. as a reason to not raise ideas that might turn out to be uninteresting, low-quality, low-priority, or whatever. It seems best to have a relatively low bar for raising an idea (along with appropriate caveats, expressions of uncertainty, etc.), even if we want to keep the bar for things we spend lots of resources on quite high. We’ll find better priorities if we start with a broad pool of options.
(See also babble and prune [full disclosure: I don’t know if I’ve actually read any of those posts].)
(Obviously some screening is needed before even raising an idea—we won’t literally say any random sequence of syllables, and we should probably not bother writing about every idea that seemed potentially promising for a moment but not after a minute of thought. But it basically seems)
I also think charity science might have tried getting people to pledge in their wills.