Sorry for the slow reply on this—I’ve been taking a bit of a break from the EA forum.
I’m pleased to report the funding situation at HLI has substantially improved on the back of our new research. We’ve raised enough money that we’ve switched to our ‘growth’ budget (most of the difference between ‘lean’ and ‘growth’ is hiring 2 new staff). However, we are still $50k short of funding for our growth budget for 2022 and donations would be welcome! Feel free to reach out to me privately too.
I’ll talk to our fiscal sponsor, PPF and find out about the financial statements.
You replied in less than a week, I consider it a fast reply, nothing to be sorry about!
I’m so very glad to hear that the funding situation of the HLI has improved, I think the work you’re doing is really important and something that was/is sorely missing when trying to maximize and align impact.
On a personal note, I’ll take this opportunity to mention that I find your posts and comments on this forum very valuable. As someone ignorant about philosophy and happiness research, that’s how I was introduced to important topics like population ethics and WELLBYs. It helped me understand much better my intuitive uneasiness about GiveWell’s values and cleared up a lot of internal confusion.
Seeing a different perspective in what sometimes seems a bit of a monoculture (EA short-term interventions to improve human lives), and seeing the importance of SWB being relentlessly pushed for years was very enlightening and inspiring.
Hello Lorenzo,
Sorry for the slow reply on this—I’ve been taking a bit of a break from the EA forum.
I’m pleased to report the funding situation at HLI has substantially improved on the back of our new research. We’ve raised enough money that we’ve switched to our ‘growth’ budget (most of the difference between ‘lean’ and ‘growth’ is hiring 2 new staff). However, we are still $50k short of funding for our growth budget for 2022 and donations would be welcome! Feel free to reach out to me privately too.
I’ll talk to our fiscal sponsor, PPF and find out about the financial statements.
Hi Michael,
You replied in less than a week, I consider it a fast reply, nothing to be sorry about!
I’m so very glad to hear that the funding situation of the HLI has improved, I think the work you’re doing is really important and something that was/is sorely missing when trying to maximize and align impact.
On a personal note, I’ll take this opportunity to mention that I find your posts and comments on this forum very valuable.
As someone ignorant about philosophy and happiness research, that’s how I was introduced to important topics like population ethics and WELLBYs. It helped me understand much better my intuitive uneasiness about GiveWell’s values and cleared up a lot of internal confusion.
Seeing a different perspective in what sometimes seems a bit of a monoculture (EA short-term interventions to improve human lives), and seeing the importance of SWB being relentlessly pushed for years was very enlightening and inspiring.
So thank you for all your amazing work!