I’d be willing to do more direct work, like remote research assistance, for free in my spare time if somebody donated on my behalf. Would that count as acausal labor? Acausal work? Could the promise of my work be guaranteed by using a contract stating the donation wouldn’t take place until the work was completed to satisfaction?
Thumbs up for this.
Creating a labor market for people who are willing to work for causes seems high value to me.
A few years ago, before I spend most, and while Brazil was doing well, I didn’t care about money, and as usual I was working and paying my own work out of pocket.
If it was an option then, I would have wanted to work on far future EA, and hedge my bets by asking other people to donate to near future causes on behalf of the work I was doing.
I currently lean much more strongly towards far future though, so most of my eggs are in that basket.
You can consider writing a post about indirect donations between EAs, in the spirit of Direct Funding Between EAs. I believe Rox Heston would be happy to help conceptually, and Matt Reyes would be happy to help editing.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/moraleconomics
I’d be willing to do more direct work, like remote research assistance, for free in my spare time if somebody donated on my behalf. Would that count as acausal labor? Acausal work? Could the promise of my work be guaranteed by using a contract stating the donation wouldn’t take place until the work was completed to satisfaction?
Thumbs up for this. Creating a labor market for people who are willing to work for causes seems high value to me.
A few years ago, before I spend most, and while Brazil was doing well, I didn’t care about money, and as usual I was working and paying my own work out of pocket.
If it was an option then, I would have wanted to work on far future EA, and hedge my bets by asking other people to donate to near future causes on behalf of the work I was doing. I currently lean much more strongly towards far future though, so most of my eggs are in that basket. You can consider writing a post about indirect donations between EAs, in the spirit of Direct Funding Between EAs. I believe Rox Heston would be happy to help conceptually, and Matt Reyes would be happy to help editing. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/moraleconomics