Broadly agree that applying EA principles towards other cause areas would be great, especially for areas that are already intuitively popular and have a lot of money behind them (eg climate change, education). One could imagine a consultancy or research org that specializes as “Givewell of X”.
Influencing where other billionaires give also seems great. My understanding is that this is Longview’s remit, but I don’t think they’ve succeeded at moving giant amounts yet, and there’s a lot of room for others to try similar things. It might be harder to advise billionaires who already have a foundation (eg Bill Gates), since their foundations see it as their role to decide where money should go; but doing work to catch the eye of newly minted billionaires might be a viable strategy, similar to how Givewell found a Dustin.
Broadly agree that applying EA principles towards other cause areas would be great, especially for areas that are already intuitively popular and have a lot of money behind them (eg climate change, education). One could imagine a consultancy or research org that specializes as “Givewell of X”.
Influencing where other billionaires give also seems great. My understanding is that this is Longview’s remit, but I don’t think they’ve succeeded at moving giant amounts yet, and there’s a lot of room for others to try similar things. It might be harder to advise billionaires who already have a foundation (eg Bill Gates), since their foundations see it as their role to decide where money should go; but doing work to catch the eye of newly minted billionaires might be a viable strategy, similar to how Givewell found a Dustin.