Kind of a funny selection effect going on here here where if you pick sufficiently promising / legible / successful orgs (like Against Malaria Foundation), isn’t that just funging against OpenPhil funding? This leads me to want to upweight new and not-yet-proven orgs (like the several new AIM-incubated charities), plus things like PauseAI and Wild Animal Initiative that OpenPhil feels they can’t fund for political reasons. (Same argument would apply for invertebrate welfare, but I personally don’t really believe in invertebrate welfare. Sorry!)
I’m also somewhat saddened by the inevitable popularity-contest nature of the vote; I feel like people are picking orgs they’ve heard of and picking orgs that match their personal cause-prioritization “team” (global health vs x-risk vs animals). I like the idea that EA should be experimental and exploratory, so (although I am a longtermist myself), I tried to further upweight some really interesting new cause areas that I just learned about while reading these various posts: - Accion Transformadora’s crime-reduction stuff seems like a promising new space to explore for potential effective interventions in medium-income countries. - One Acre Fund is potentially neat, I’m into the idea of economic-growth-boosting interventions and this might be a good one. - It’s neat that Observatorio de Riesgos Catastroficos is doing a bunch of cool x-risk-related projects throughout latin america; their nuclear-winter-resilience-planning stuff in Argentina and Brazil seems like a particularly well-placed bit of local lobbying/activism.
But alas, there can only be three top-three winners, so I ultimately spent my top votes on Team Popular Longtermist Stuff (Nucleic Acid Observatory, PauseAI, MATS) in the hopes that one of them, probably PauseAI, would become a winner.
(longtermist stuff) 1. Nucleic Acid Observatory 2. Observatorio de Riesgos Catastroficos 3. PauseAI 4. MATS
(interesting stuff in more niche cause areas, which i sadly doubt can actually win) 5. Accion Transformadora 6. One Acre Fund 7. Unjournal
(if longtermism loses across the board, I prefer wild animal welfare to invertebrate welfare) 8. Wild Animal Inititative 9. Faunalytics
Kind of a funny selection effect going on here here where if you pick sufficiently promising / legible / successful orgs (like Against Malaria Foundation), isn’t that just funging against OpenPhil funding? This leads me to want to upweight new and not-yet-proven orgs (like the several new AIM-incubated charities), plus things like PauseAI and Wild Animal Initiative that OpenPhil feels they can’t fund for political reasons. (Same argument would apply for invertebrate welfare, but I personally don’t really believe in invertebrate welfare. Sorry!)
I’m also somewhat saddened by the inevitable popularity-contest nature of the vote; I feel like people are picking orgs they’ve heard of and picking orgs that match their personal cause-prioritization “team” (global health vs x-risk vs animals). I like the idea that EA should be experimental and exploratory, so (although I am a longtermist myself), I tried to further upweight some really interesting new cause areas that I just learned about while reading these various posts:
- Accion Transformadora’s crime-reduction stuff seems like a promising new space to explore for potential effective interventions in medium-income countries.
- One Acre Fund is potentially neat, I’m into the idea of economic-growth-boosting interventions and this might be a good one.
- It’s neat that Observatorio de Riesgos Catastroficos is doing a bunch of cool x-risk-related projects throughout latin america; their nuclear-winter-resilience-planning stuff in Argentina and Brazil seems like a particularly well-placed bit of local lobbying/activism.
But alas, there can only be three top-three winners, so I ultimately spent my top votes on Team Popular Longtermist Stuff (Nucleic Acid Observatory, PauseAI, MATS) in the hopes that one of them, probably PauseAI, would become a winner.
(longtermist stuff)
1. Nucleic Acid Observatory
2. Observatorio de Riesgos Catastroficos
3. PauseAI
4. MATS
(interesting stuff in more niche cause areas, which i sadly doubt can actually win)
5. Accion Transformadora
6. One Acre Fund
7. Unjournal
(if longtermism loses across the board, I prefer wild animal welfare to invertebrate welfare)
8. Wild Animal Inititative
9. Faunalytics