I would greatly expect that once everything is accounted for, donating EA money to politics won’t be cost effective but I like that you’re thinking about this and realize that it’s not going to be “EA money” predominantly.
To be clear, I wasn’t advocating here to donate EA money. I think this would place this at a significantly higher bar. My point instead is that I think that the political issue is much more mainstream than EA causes, and would have been a clearer cause for many other people, including the top 0.1%.
Didn’t mean to imply you were, sorry if it came off that way.
Yup, I agree. But I think most people don’t care as much about political outcomes as they purport to, based on their actions. I think a lot of that is social desirability bias.
To be clear, I wasn’t advocating here to donate EA money. I think this would place this at a significantly higher bar. My point instead is that I think that the political issue is much more mainstream than EA causes, and would have been a clearer cause for many other people, including the top 0.1%.
Didn’t mean to imply you were, sorry if it came off that way.
Yup, I agree. But I think most people don’t care as much about political outcomes as they purport to, based on their actions. I think a lot of that is social desirability bias.
I also don’t think it’s that clear that Kamala is obviously the better pick or that Trump being President over Kamala is worth $1-10T of value. I like this comment about the better choice for President being non-obvious.