How will you prioritise amongst the projects listed here with unrestricted funds from small donors? Most of these projects I find very exciting, but some more than others. Do you have a rough priority ordering or a sense of what you would do in different scenarios, like if you ended up with unrestricted funding of $0.25m/$0.5m/$1m/$2m/$4m etc how you would split it between the projects you list?
I think views on this will vary somewhat within RP leadership. Here I am also reporting my own somewhat quick independent impressions which could update upon further discussing with teams and the rest of leadership. We’re planning to do more to finalize plans next month so it’s still a bit up in the air right now. Candidly, our priorities also depend on how our end of year fundraising campaign lands.
Here’s roughly what I’m thinking right now:
Highest priority / first $250k (and I am not listing these by order of priority within each tier):
~$35k for publishing our backlog of completed work.
~$100k towards more cause prioritization work
~$30k towards running the next EA Survey (hoping to have that matched by institutional funders)
~$15k for writing up our learnings from spending a year attempting longermist incubation (though we might try to 80⁄20 soon for less).
~$38k for establishing our farmed animals impact tracker
~$60k towards piloting our value of research model
Next highest priority / second $250k:
~$15k for publishing our backlog of work
~$75k towards more cause prioritization work/ worldview investigation work
~$30k towards piloting our value of research model
~$40k towards more rigorously understanding branding for AI risk outreach
~$45k towards more rigorously understanding EA’s growth trajectory
Third highest priority / next $500k:
~$30k towards publishing our backlog of research
~$75k towards more cause prioritization work/ worldview investigation work
~$50k towards piloting our value of research model
~$50k towards understanding why people drop out of EA
~$75k towards the theory of change status report for farmed animals
~$40k towards the farmed insect ask.
~$40k towards more rigorously understanding branding for EA And existential risk
~$30k towards understanding EA’s growth trajectory
~$60k towards QALYs/DALYS for animals
I am going to stop there as that first million is probably the most decision relevant, and right now that seems most likely where we will land with our funds raised.
With all this said, we also take donor preferences very seriously, including by taking restricted gifts. If there are particular options that are most exciting to you, then we might be able to further prioritize those if you or others were to offer support and indicated that preference .Relatedly, I am curious if you are willing to share which projects you are most excited about, or conversely which are least appealing?
And thank you too for all that you do to improve the world and these well-thought out questions!! :)
I think views on this will vary somewhat within RP leadership. Here I am also reporting my own somewhat quick independent impressions which could update upon further discussing with teams and the rest of leadership. We’re planning to do more to finalize plans next month so it’s still a bit up in the air right now. Candidly, our priorities also depend on how our end of year fundraising campaign lands.
Here’s roughly what I’m thinking right now:
Highest priority / first $250k (and I am not listing these by order of priority within each tier):
~$35k for publishing our backlog of completed work.
~$100k towards more cause prioritization work
~$30k towards running the next EA Survey (hoping to have that matched by institutional funders)
~$15k for writing up our learnings from spending a year attempting longermist incubation (though we might try to 80⁄20 soon for less).
~$38k for establishing our farmed animals impact tracker
~$60k towards piloting our value of research model
Next highest priority / second $250k:
~$15k for publishing our backlog of work
~$75k towards more cause prioritization work/ worldview investigation work
~$30k towards piloting our value of research model
~$40k towards more rigorously understanding branding for AI risk outreach
~$45k towards more rigorously understanding EA’s growth trajectory
Third highest priority / next $500k:
~$30k towards publishing our backlog of research
~$75k towards more cause prioritization work/ worldview investigation work
~$50k towards piloting our value of research model
~$50k towards understanding why people drop out of EA
~$75k towards the theory of change status report for farmed animals
~$40k towards the farmed insect ask.
~$40k towards more rigorously understanding branding for EA And existential risk
~$30k towards understanding EA’s growth trajectory
~$60k towards QALYs/DALYS for animals
I am going to stop there as that first million is probably the most decision relevant, and right now that seems most likely where we will land with our funds raised.
With all this said, we also take donor preferences very seriously, including by taking restricted gifts. If there are particular options that are most exciting to you, then we might be able to further prioritize those if you or others were to offer support and indicated that preference .Relatedly, I am curious if you are willing to share which projects you are most excited about, or conversely which are least appealing?
And thank you too for all that you do to improve the world and these well-thought out questions!! :)