I’ve often found it strange that GiveWell staff do their meta-donations primarily to GiveWell and CEA staff do theirs primarily to CEA. I’m guessing in many cases the deciding factor about who works where is whether it’s more convenient to live in the Bay or in Oxford, rather than any serious ideological difference.
I’d feel better if cross-organizational giving were more common (hopefully not just in a “scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” way).
While previously I had felt the strength of “Your choice of where to work and where to donate will be correlated”, on reading
GiveWell staff do their meta-donations primarily to GiveWell and CEA staff do theirs primarily to CEA
my System 1 immediately jumped to “Well obviously they’re being tribal”. Insofar as I should(n’t) generalise from one example, this did make me update that it has the potential to be a noticeable image problem in the future.
I’ve often found it strange that GiveWell staff do their meta-donations primarily to GiveWell and CEA staff do theirs primarily to CEA. I’m guessing in many cases the deciding factor about who works where is whether it’s more convenient to live in the Bay or in Oxford, rather than any serious ideological difference.
I’d feel better if cross-organizational giving were more common (hopefully not just in a “scratch my back I’ll scratch yours” way).
What’s a meta-donation? Is that a donation to a metacharity, or something else?
“donation to a metacharity” is how I interpreted it
This.
Thanks.
While previously I had felt the strength of “Your choice of where to work and where to donate will be correlated”, on reading
my System 1 immediately jumped to “Well obviously they’re being tribal”. Insofar as I should(n’t) generalise from one example, this did make me update that it has the potential to be a noticeable image problem in the future.