Executive summary: Rethink Priorities outlines a research agenda focused on optimizing the allocation of limited altruistic resources across five key areas: impact evaluation, longtermism, decision-making under uncertainty, investment strategies, and movement building.
Key points:
Evaluating impact requires resolving questions about moral weights, value measurement, and worldview diversification to compare different interventions’ effectiveness.
Longtermist considerations demand balancing survival vs flourishing, with careful attention to risk profiles and ordering effects between different catastrophic risks.
Decision-making frameworks must address deep uncertainty and cluelessness while maintaining consistent standards across cause areas.
Investment strategies need to optimize spending rates over time while managing risks of investing forever and balancing direct impact vs returns.
Movement building requires careful resource allocation between growth and direct impact, while managing public perception and organizational structure.
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Executive summary: Rethink Priorities outlines a research agenda focused on optimizing the allocation of limited altruistic resources across five key areas: impact evaluation, longtermism, decision-making under uncertainty, investment strategies, and movement building.
Key points:
Evaluating impact requires resolving questions about moral weights, value measurement, and worldview diversification to compare different interventions’ effectiveness.
Longtermist considerations demand balancing survival vs flourishing, with careful attention to risk profiles and ordering effects between different catastrophic risks.
Decision-making frameworks must address deep uncertainty and cluelessness while maintaining consistent standards across cause areas.
Investment strategies need to optimize spending rates over time while managing risks of investing forever and balancing direct impact vs returns.
Movement building requires careful resource allocation between growth and direct impact, while managing public perception and organizational structure.
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