I donated to the donation election fund. Just wanted to add a note here about why, in the hopes of encouraging others. (1) I want to encourage more posts during Giving Season, and I expect that a larger pool of money in the donation election fund would incentivize this; (2) I expect that the vote will allocate donations to high impact donation opportunities that are approximately as cost-effective as the donations I counterfactually allocate on my own; (3) there is at least one reason to expect the community vote to yield better donations than my own independent choice (something something Condorcet Jury Theorem).
Edit: Just seeing that Toby has a nice and more thorough post on the value of donating to the fund here, for those who missed it.
I donated to the donation election fund. Just wanted to add a note here about why, in the hopes of encouraging others. (1) I want to encourage more posts during Giving Season, and I expect that a larger pool of money in the donation election fund would incentivize this; (2) I expect that the vote will allocate donations to high impact donation opportunities that are approximately as cost-effective as the donations I counterfactually allocate on my own; (3) there is at least one reason to expect the community vote to yield better donations than my own independent choice (something something Condorcet Jury Theorem).
Edit: Just seeing that Toby has a nice and more thorough post on the value of donating to the fund here, for those who missed it.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/j6fmnYM5ZRu9fJyrq/donation-election-how-to-vote says that this is plurality-based voting system, not Condorcet. ☹️