My approach here is to look for ways to help people in the EA community save money on basic needs. A pattern I’m noticing is that they often seem to be good for community building too.
2) Shared housing for people involved with EA & rationality.
An especially promising example is the Accelerator Project, I think.
I’ve also found 19 rationality/EA houses around the world so far (I’m slowly working on getting one going in the Netherlands).
I think that scaling cost-saving solutions like these are a more promising area to explore than funding basic incomes (depending on how many people take part for the time put into kickstarting the project). Whether spending time on starting a cost-saving project yourself is worth it does depend on your skills and opportunities.
For me, funding movement building/far future orgs generally makes more sense than a basic income (most of which goes to giving a coordinated group of people incomes so they can take risks) unless a basic income would target high-potential people only. Or perhaps you could fund someone to start a cost-savings project. :-)
There is also the Kernel Project (Manchester, UK) - rationalist & rationalist-adjacent low cost living and community building. I would be happy to see more EAs involved.
My approach here is to look for ways to help people in the EA community save money on basic needs. A pattern I’m noticing is that they often seem to be good for community building too.
Examples of this:
1) The EA Safety net project, which I’ve just started working on with dedicated others.
2) Shared housing for people involved with EA & rationality. An especially promising example is the Accelerator Project, I think. I’ve also found 19 rationality/EA houses around the world so far (I’m slowly working on getting one going in the Netherlands).
3) Even simpler: couchsurfing
I think that scaling cost-saving solutions like these are a more promising area to explore than funding basic incomes (depending on how many people take part for the time put into kickstarting the project). Whether spending time on starting a cost-saving project yourself is worth it does depend on your skills and opportunities.
For me, funding movement building/far future orgs generally makes more sense than a basic income (most of which goes to giving a coordinated group of people incomes so they can take risks) unless a basic income would target high-potential people only. Or perhaps you could fund someone to start a cost-savings project. :-)
There is also the Kernel Project (Manchester, UK) - rationalist & rationalist-adjacent low cost living and community building. I would be happy to see more EAs involved.