An intuition pump might be: how would you feel if a FarmKind-style fundraiser (“OperaKind”) somehow got the donor list for your own favorite charity and sent out emails urging those donors to participate in OperaKind? Would you be excited, or more concerned that money might be shifted from your preferred charities to opera charities?
Or one could skip the hypothetical and just ask some of the big non-EA charities—if they think FarmKind would be counterfactually positive for them, they should be willing to turn over their donor lists for free which would be a major coup.
Disclaimer: I am mostly skimming as there’s a lot to read and haven’t gotten through it all. But I do believe part of the idea with FarmKind is that the donors are already sympathetic to animal charities, and agree with the premise of effective animal charities, but also just want to get some warm fuzzies in as well. As opposed to most of their money going to something they do not agree with or have any care for.
An intuition pump might be: how would you feel if a FarmKind-style fundraiser (“OperaKind”) somehow got the donor list for your own favorite charity and sent out emails urging those donors to participate in OperaKind? Would you be excited, or more concerned that money might be shifted from your preferred charities to opera charities?
Or one could skip the hypothetical and just ask some of the big non-EA charities—if they think FarmKind would be counterfactually positive for them, they should be willing to turn over their donor lists for free which would be a major coup.
Disclaimer: I am mostly skimming as there’s a lot to read and haven’t gotten through it all. But I do believe part of the idea with FarmKind is that the donors are already sympathetic to animal charities, and agree with the premise of effective animal charities, but also just want to get some warm fuzzies in as well. As opposed to most of their money going to something they do not agree with or have any care for.