What are your criteria for deciding which organizations to support?
I’m particularly interested in how you think about cause prioritization in this process. The list of currently supported organizations looks roughly evenly split between organizations that are explicitly longtermist (e.g. Forethought Foundation and Longview Philanthropy) and organizations that (like the EA community as a whole) support both longtermist and neartermist work (e.g. GWWC and EA Funds). I don’t see any that focus solely on neartermist work. Do you expect the future mix of supported organizations to look similar to the current one? Would an organization working on animal welfare be as likely to receive support as one working on biosecurity if other factors like strength and size of team were the same?
Also, I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I really hope this change leads to a major reassessment of how governance is structured for these organizations.
What are your criteria for deciding which organizations to support?
I’m particularly interested in how you think about cause prioritization in this process. The list of currently supported organizations looks roughly evenly split between organizations that are explicitly longtermist (e.g. Forethought Foundation and Longview Philanthropy) and organizations that (like the EA community as a whole) support both longtermist and neartermist work (e.g. GWWC and EA Funds). I don’t see any that focus solely on neartermist work. Do you expect the future mix of supported organizations to look similar to the current one? Would an organization working on animal welfare be as likely to receive support as one working on biosecurity if other factors like strength and size of team were the same?
Also, I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I really hope this change leads to a major reassessment of how governance is structured for these organizations.