Investment-like giving opportunities also seem most relevant to me and I’d love seeing more thought on this topic. My current intuition leans towards giving now, though my understanding feels pretty simplistic, mostly based on impressions that
many very smart people are currently directing their intellectual and altruistic ambitions suboptimally because they never thought about prioritisation and longtermism
there is not too much competition in offering them positions in an intellectual and altruistic environment where they can work on priority issues
I likely got this wrong, but as a concrete plausibly not actually true example, I’m thinking about a researcher like David Roodman, independently doing excellent work that caught the attention of GiveWell, influencing him to down the road directing his attention on longtermist issues. I expect there are many more people like him at different stages of their career and I’d love to see more Open Philanthropy Projects and Future of Humanity Institutes and MIRIs (maybe Edward Kmett as a similar example) and so forth where they can work or with whom they’d want to collaborate.
Investment-like giving opportunities also seem most relevant to me and I’d love seeing more thought on this topic. My current intuition leans towards giving now, though my understanding feels pretty simplistic, mostly based on impressions that
many very smart people are currently directing their intellectual and altruistic ambitions suboptimally because they never thought about prioritisation and longtermism
there is not too much competition in offering them positions in an intellectual and altruistic environment where they can work on priority issues
I likely got this wrong, but as a concrete plausibly not actually true example, I’m thinking about a researcher like David Roodman, independently doing excellent work that caught the attention of GiveWell, influencing him to down the road directing his attention on longtermist issues. I expect there are many more people like him at different stages of their career and I’d love to see more Open Philanthropy Projects and Future of Humanity Institutes and MIRIs (maybe Edward Kmett as a similar example) and so forth where they can work or with whom they’d want to collaborate.