Hi Tom! I think this idea of giving based on the signalling value is an interesting one.
One idea—I wonder if you could capture a lot of the signalling value while only moving a small part of your donation budget to non-xrisk causes?
How that would work: when you’re talking to people about your GWWC donations, if you think they’d be more receptive to global health/animal ideas you can tell them about your giving to those charities. And then (if you think they’d be receptive) you can go on to say that ultimately you think the most pressing problems are xrisks, and therefore you allocate most of your donations to building humanity’s capacity to prevent them.
In other words, is the signalling value scale-insensitive (compared to the real-world impact of your donations)?
Hi Tom! I think this idea of giving based on the signalling value is an interesting one.
One idea—I wonder if you could capture a lot of the signalling value while only moving a small part of your donation budget to non-xrisk causes?
How that would work: when you’re talking to people about your GWWC donations, if you think they’d be more receptive to global health/animal ideas you can tell them about your giving to those charities. And then (if you think they’d be receptive) you can go on to say that ultimately you think the most pressing problems are xrisks, and therefore you allocate most of your donations to building humanity’s capacity to prevent them.
In other words, is the signalling value scale-insensitive (compared to the real-world impact of your donations)?