As noted there: āI strongly encourage people to consider applying for one or more of these [funding opportunities]. Given how quick applying often is and how impactful funded projects often are, applying is often worthwhile in expectation even if your odds of getting funding arenāt very high. (I think the same basic logic applies to job applications.)ā
I recently collected here a bunch of active grantmaking ideas, i.e. ideas for either projects that might be worth trying to make happen or people/āteams/āorgs that might be worth funding to do something.
I have some thoughts on or know people/āresources relevant to the following ideas from your list, so if someone is seriously considering working on one of those things, feel free to reach out to me via a Forum direct message:
Thanks, this seems like a useful collection!
Here are some other things readers might find useful:
List of EA funding opportunities
As noted there: āI strongly encourage people to consider applying for one or more of these [funding opportunities]. Given how quick applying often is and how impactful funded projects often are, applying is often worthwhile in expectation even if your odds of getting funding arenāt very high. (I think the same basic logic applies to job applications.)ā
I recently collected here a bunch of active grantmaking ideas, i.e. ideas for either projects that might be worth trying to make happen or people/āteams/āorgs that might be worth funding to do something.
I have some thoughts on or know people/āresources relevant to the following ideas from your list, so if someone is seriously considering working on one of those things, feel free to reach out to me via a Forum direct message:
āBuy a Big Newspaperā
āA Forecasting Organizationā
āPurchase high impact academic journalsā
āA really large think tankā
āFund an enormous EA forecasting tournamentā