thanks for creating this write up. On the democratizing of grantmaking part of this post. One of the reasons that I gave my full internship pay of 14k as a rising senior to the EA animal welfare fund was that I didn’t have to put in any effort into thinking about what organizations/opportunities were effective. I really valued that I could outsource this labor to lewis bollard and other grantmakers that have a good track record. If I feel they are not doing a good job I will switch my donations to ACE though >:3
Some model of liquid democracy could help with that kind of thing. In short, it allows voters to either cast their vote themselves or delegate it to others (who can delegate their pool further, and so on).
Hello OP,
thanks for creating this write up. On the democratizing of grantmaking part of this post. One of the reasons that I gave my full internship pay of 14k as a rising senior to the EA animal welfare fund was that I didn’t have to put in any effort into thinking about what organizations/opportunities were effective. I really valued that I could outsource this labor to lewis bollard and other grantmakers that have a good track record.
If I feel they are not doing a good job I will switch my donations to ACE though >:3
Some model of liquid democracy could help with that kind of thing. In short, it allows voters to either cast their vote themselves or delegate it to others (who can delegate their pool further, and so on).
That makes sense. I think it would be best to retain these option alongside the ideas that I propose