Interesting exercise; I think it would be great to try to quantify more clearly how widely adopted EA principles are by billionaires in general. (Hard to assess, apart from data-mining their public statements for references to EA keywords and phrases?)
There are a lot of them -- 2,700 billionaires worldwide, according to Forbes. So it’s not just the top 10 who count. If EA can nudge even 10% of them to take EA principles more seriously, that could be another couple of hundred major donors to EA cause areas.
Hard to assess, apart from data-mining their public statements for references to EA keywords and phrases?
This seems like it could be a fragile approach.
I’ve been thinking about this a bit. It seems very likely that research we would all find satisfactory would be too much for one person. One option would be to have a well-funded team, like the Forbes one, do that research. A different option might be to crowdsource it. I think I’m more attracted to the crowdsourcing option, but not sure.
Interesting exercise; I think it would be great to try to quantify more clearly how widely adopted EA principles are by billionaires in general. (Hard to assess, apart from data-mining their public statements for references to EA keywords and phrases?)
There are a lot of them -- 2,700 billionaires worldwide, according to Forbes. So it’s not just the top 10 who count. If EA can nudge even 10% of them to take EA principles more seriously, that could be another couple of hundred major donors to EA cause areas.
This seems like it could be a fragile approach.
I’ve been thinking about this a bit. It seems very likely that research we would all find satisfactory would be too much for one person. One option would be to have a well-funded team, like the Forbes one, do that research. A different option might be to crowdsource it. I think I’m more attracted to the crowdsourcing option, but not sure.