Here is a past list of EA charity ideas/cause candidates I collected from a previous project, organized by whether they are meta or partially meta (i.e., “a step removed from direct impact”), and then by my subjective promisingness. You can see more information by clicking on the “expand” button near each cause area. They come from a recent project some other people have linked to.
Some of the ones which I think you might think are competitive with your top three ideas are:
You can see more in the link above. I also have “Discovering Previously Unknown Existential Risks”, which is pretty related to your “Exploratory altruism” cause, and “Effective Animal Advocacy Movement Building” (in which cause CE has incubated Animal Advocacy careers).
Thanks for this – I checked out the full list when the post went up.
We will be researching increasing development aid and possibly researching getting money out of politics and into charity as our focus moves to more policy-focused research for our 2022 recommendations.
We also might research epistemic progress in the future, but likely from a meta science-focused perspective.
We definitely considered non-Western EA when thinking through EA meta options, but ended up with a different idea for how to best make progress on it (see here).
For-profit companies serving emerging markets I see as a very interesting space but a whole different research year from EA meta. Maybe even outside of CE’s scope indefinitely.
I do not expect us to research Patient Philanthropy, Institutions for Future Generations, Counter-Cyclical Donation Timing or Effective Informational Lobbying in the near future.
In general, I do not expect our research on EA meta to be exhaustive given the scope. I would be excited to see more ideas for EA meta projects, particularly ones with quick and clear feedback loops.
Here is a past list of EA charity ideas/cause candidates I collected from a previous project, organized by whether they are meta or partially meta (i.e., “a step removed from direct impact”), and then by my subjective promisingness. You can see more information by clicking on the “expand” button near each cause area. They come from a recent project some other people have linked to.
Some of the ones which I think you might think are competitive with your top three ideas are:
Increasing development aid
Getting Money Out Of Politics And Into Charity
Non-Western EA
For-profit companies serving emerging markets
Additionally, some of the ones which I think might be competitive with your top three ideas (but about which you might disagree) are:
Epistemic Progress
Patient Philanthropy
Institutions for Future Generations
Counter-Cyclical Donation Timing
Effective Informational Lobbying
You can see more in the link above. I also have “Discovering Previously Unknown Existential Risks”, which is pretty related to your “Exploratory altruism” cause, and “Effective Animal Advocacy Movement Building” (in which cause CE has incubated Animal Advocacy careers).
Thanks for this – I checked out the full list when the post went up.
We will be researching increasing development aid and possibly researching getting money out of politics and into charity as our focus moves to more policy-focused research for our 2022 recommendations.
We also might research epistemic progress in the future, but likely from a meta science-focused perspective.
We definitely considered non-Western EA when thinking through EA meta options, but ended up with a different idea for how to best make progress on it (see here).
For-profit companies serving emerging markets I see as a very interesting space but a whole different research year from EA meta. Maybe even outside of CE’s scope indefinitely.
I do not expect us to research Patient Philanthropy, Institutions for Future Generations, Counter-Cyclical Donation Timing or Effective Informational Lobbying in the near future.
In general, I do not expect our research on EA meta to be exhaustive given the scope. I would be excited to see more ideas for EA meta projects, particularly ones with quick and clear feedback loops.