It would be interesting to see estimates that compare the impact of grantmaking with the impact of researching or entrepreneurship. Because many factors are hard to estimate at an absolute level, but could be held fixed across those cases, such as “your overall level of talent”, “the value of X units of x-risk reduction research”, and so on. And besides, a comparison would be more decision-relevant for people.
I think this would be valuable, but doing this across various careers might be too much for any one person. But posts like this are a good first step which makes that later comparison step easier.
Agreed! Especially since Charity Entrepreneurship is starting efforts in health security, and I’d expect increasing longtermist entrepreneurship efforts over the next few years.
It would be interesting to see estimates that compare the impact of grantmaking with the impact of researching or entrepreneurship. Because many factors are hard to estimate at an absolute level, but could be held fixed across those cases, such as “your overall level of talent”, “the value of X units of x-risk reduction research”, and so on. And besides, a comparison would be more decision-relevant for people.
I think this would be valuable, but doing this across various careers might be too much for any one person. But posts like this are a good first step which makes that later comparison step easier.
Agreed! Especially since Charity Entrepreneurship is starting efforts in health security, and I’d expect increasing longtermist entrepreneurship efforts over the next few years.