Great to see that you’re donating, and that the kids had a great time!
I’m curious as to why you chose to donate here in particular (my understanding is that it was rooted in the ease of a wage sacrifice, so limited friction) - it was not necessarily a choice that would conventionally fall in line with EA frameworks, given not optimising for suffering minimised, lives saved, positive utility delivered, or another metric of choosing based on one’s worldview.
Of course, not every donation need optimise for those—there is a place for fuzzy altruism in personal satisfaction and sustainability amongst other reasons; looking forward to hearing what the rationale was here.
Thank you Sanu for asking this! This donation happened by chance and led to breaking my first donation analysis-paralysis situation. Considering how large often EA donations are, I didn’t quite think if it should be EA optimised since my donation was only enough to cover a pre X-mass event for these kids and their families. I felt somewhere that since the org which donated my fee to them was EA-aligned it was kinda an EA-ish support that way, definitely not downright EA way. As you rightly said, not every donation need to optimise and the fact that the donation was possible due to my work on an EA project is also what makes it relevant for me to post this here :)
Great to see that you’re donating, and that the kids had a great time!
I’m curious as to why you chose to donate here in particular (my understanding is that it was rooted in the ease of a wage sacrifice, so limited friction) - it was not necessarily a choice that would conventionally fall in line with EA frameworks, given not optimising for suffering minimised, lives saved, positive utility delivered, or another metric of choosing based on one’s worldview.
Of course, not every donation need optimise for those—there is a place for fuzzy altruism in personal satisfaction and sustainability amongst other reasons; looking forward to hearing what the rationale was here.
Thank you Sanu for asking this! This donation happened by chance and led to breaking my first donation analysis-paralysis situation. Considering how large often EA donations are, I didn’t quite think if it should be EA optimised since my donation was only enough to cover a pre X-mass event for these kids and their families. I felt somewhere that since the org which donated my fee to them was EA-aligned it was kinda an EA-ish support that way, definitely not downright EA way. As you rightly said, not every donation need to optimise and the fact that the donation was possible due to my work on an EA project is also what makes it relevant for me to post this here :)