I feel like this is a basic confusion on my part, but wouldn’t it be better to delay until the end of REG’s fundraising period, i.e. when they are making spending decisions for the next year, and then top them off in explicit coordination with other EAs thinking about this? Like, RfMF should be an easily solved problem in cases with a friendly/communicative nonprofit and a donorbase explicitly discussing RfMF with each other.
How much does or will Buck donate?
Buck has stated that he plans to donate ~40,000 dollars this year, although that might not be true anymore.
I didn’t know they were running a fundraiser, but yeah, waiting until it’s over makes the most sense. Coordination itself is difficult, so the above was an experiment in trying to figure out what do when coordination doesn’t seem feasible over a given time period, which seems possible. Denis Drescher and I have been discussing attempts to coordinate donors, and we actually intend to post on the EA Forum soon a discussion where donors can register their upcoming donations for the remainder of 2015, across all EA meta-charities.
I feel like this is a basic confusion on my part, but wouldn’t it be better to delay until the end of REG’s fundraising period, i.e. when they are making spending decisions for the next year, and then top them off in explicit coordination with other EAs thinking about this? Like, RfMF should be an easily solved problem in cases with a friendly/communicative nonprofit and a donorbase explicitly discussing RfMF with each other.
Buck has stated that he plans to donate ~40,000 dollars this year, although that might not be true anymore.
I didn’t know they were running a fundraiser, but yeah, waiting until it’s over makes the most sense. Coordination itself is difficult, so the above was an experiment in trying to figure out what do when coordination doesn’t seem feasible over a given time period, which seems possible. Denis Drescher and I have been discussing attempts to coordinate donors, and we actually intend to post on the EA Forum soon a discussion where donors can register their upcoming donations for the remainder of 2015, across all EA meta-charities.