(Context: I have recently joined CEA to run EA Funds.)
I see from the payout overviews that the actual distribution of donation amounts between the four focus areas the past three years has followed more or less exactly the distribution indication on the sliders.
This seems to be a coincidence. Less than 10% of total donation volume is given according to the default allocation.
does that mean that any future donor will not get any EA recommendation on how to balance her donation between the four areas?
The allocation decision is based on a lot of judgment calls, such as: Do you think strong longtermism is correct? Do you think that non-human animals matter morally to a significant degree? Do you want to diversify across worldviews? This flowchart and this article give you an overview of some of the judgment calls involved.
There is no clear expert consensus on these questions, and there may not even be an objective answer to some of them, so we’re moving away from recommending a particular allocation. But in the future, we may provide more guidance for donors to reason through these worldview questions themselves.
I agree that many donations will be anchored by the default even if they don’t use the default allocation. But donation volume is dominated by a small number of very large transactions, almost alledit: most of which use a completely different allocation (often with 100% going to just one fund).
Hi Peter,
(Context: I have recently joined CEA to run EA Funds.)
This seems to be a coincidence. Less than 10% of total donation volume is given according to the default allocation.
The allocation decision is based on a lot of judgment calls, such as: Do you think strong longtermism is correct? Do you think that non-human animals matter morally to a significant degree? Do you want to diversify across worldviews? This flowchart and this article give you an overview of some of the judgment calls involved.
There is no clear expert consensus on these questions, and there may not even be an objective answer to some of them, so we’re moving away from recommending a particular allocation. But in the future, we may provide more guidance for donors to reason through these worldview questions themselves.
I roll to disbelieve? Why do you think this? Like, even if there’s slight variation I expect it’s massively anchored on the default allocation.
I agree that many donations will be anchored by the default even if they don’t use the default allocation. But donation volume is dominated by a small number of very large transactions,
almost alledit: most of which use a completely different allocation (often with 100% going to just one fund).Interesting. Thank you very much.