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Im­prov­ing in­sti­tu­tional de­ci­sion-making

TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2022 18:54 UTC by Pablo

Improving institutional decision-making is a cause that focuses on increasing the technical quality and effective altruism alignment of the most important decisions made by the world’s most important decision-making bodies.[1]

Improving institutions

Institutions such as governments, companies, and charities control significant resources. One potentially effective way to do good, therefore, is to help institutions use these resources in more productive ways.

Members of the effective altruism community have employed this method extensively. For instance, they have tried to increase the attention policy-makers give to existential risk. Similarly, an important goal of effective altruist charity recommendations is to increase the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations. Within the for-profit sector, altruists have sought to shape the incentives of businesses to make them more aligned with social value, and have also tried to create social value themselves by engaging in social entrepreneurship.

Institutions can be improved in two different ways: from the outside and from the inside. Effective altruism organizations try to improve institutions from the outside by giving them advice or, in the case of charities, by evaluating them, whereas individual members of the effective altruism community may work within institutions to help them achieve their ends more effectively.

One approach to improving decisions is to set up institutional structures that are conducive to good decision-making.[2][3] This way, institutions like national governments might encourage people to make better decisions (e.g. saving for retirement) or make better decisions themselves (e.g. improving health policy).

Evaluation

80,000 Hours rates improving institutional decision-making a “second-highest priority area”: an unusually pressing global problem ranked slightly below their four highest priority areas.[4]

Further reading

Whittlestone, Jess (2017) Improving institutional decision-making, 80,000 Hours, September.

Related entries

All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations | ballot initiative | electoral reform | forecasting | international relations | longtermist institutional reform | policy change | political polarization

  1. ^

    Clayton, Vicky, Dilhan Perera & ibatra171 (2021) Refining improving institutional decision-making as a cause area: results from a scoping survey, Effective Altruism Forum, June 26.

  2. ^

    Thaler, Richard H. & Cass R. Sunstein (2008) Nudge: Improving Decision about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, New Haven: Yale University Press.

  3. ^

    Whittlestone, Jess (2017) Improving institutional decision-making, 80,000 Hours, September.

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16 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

LGP up­dates; Table­top Sce­nario gen­er­a­tor, trove, and doc­u­ments library out of beta. We­bi­nar next week on TTX for con­sul­tants (LGP x EACN)

Dr Dan Epstein11 Aug 2023 0:04 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Book sum­mary: ‘Why In­tel­li­gence Fails’ by Robert Jervis

Ben Stewart19 Jun 2023 16:04 UTC
40 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Three jour­neys for effec­tive altruism

Zachary Robinson🔸22 Oct 2024 15:45 UTC
129 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Man­i­fest 2023 (Sep 22-24 in Berkeley)

Manifest14 Aug 2023 11:41 UTC
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Mush­taq Khan on us­ing in­sti­tu­tional eco­nomics to pre­dict effec­tive gov­ern­ment reforms

80000_Hours30 Sep 2021 13:22 UTC
27 points
0 comments142 min readEA link

Should I train to be­come a me­di­a­tor for the EA ecosys­tem?

Severin14 Aug 2023 2:39 UTC
33 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Take­aways on US Policy Ca­reers (Part 1): Paths to Im­pact and Per­sonal Fit

Mau26 Aug 2021 2:45 UTC
107 points
2 comments27 min readEA link

[Question] What would you ask a poli­cy­maker about ex­is­ten­tial risks?

James Nicholas Bryant6 Jul 2021 23:53 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Re­ward­ing pri­vate pro­vi­sion of pub­lic goods

VictorSintNicolaas24 Oct 2020 10:00 UTC
45 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Fu­ture De­sign: How To In­clude Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions in To­day’s De­ci­sion-Mak­ing?

simeon_c12 Jul 2022 21:53 UTC
15 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Max Stauffer: Strate­gies to sup­port poli­ti­cal de­ci­sion-making

EA Global11 Jan 2021 21:12 UTC
14 points
0 comments17 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

4) A Case Study in Pan­demic Policy Failure: Covid-19 & Hu­man-to-Hu­man Transmission

PandemicRiskMan14 Feb 2024 13:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tions as Public Works Pro­ject — What Me­tac­u­lus Is Build­ing Next

Sylvain22 Oct 2024 16:35 UTC
24 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

How to Speedrun a New Drug Ap­pli­ca­tion (In­ter­view with Alvea’s former CEO)

Aaron Gertler 🔸3 Mar 2024 0:53 UTC
37 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.statecraft.pub)

Democ­racy be­yond majoritarianism

Arturo Macias3 Sep 2024 15:06 UTC
7 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

The in­ter­sec­tion of for­eign aid and EA: a U.S. case study

ljusten8 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC
19 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

Can democ­racy be im­proved with ran­dom se­lec­tion?

John Huang27 Oct 2024 9:31 UTC
17 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] How to se­lect un­con­di­tional cash trans­fer benefi­cia­ries to max­i­mize cost-effec­tive­ness (and what in­sti­tu­tional changes can solve re­cip­i­ents’ is­sues)?

brb2437 Jan 2022 22:52 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Long ver­sion] Case study: re­duc­ing catas­trophic risk from in­side the US bureaucracy

Tom_Green27 Jun 2022 19:20 UTC
49 points
0 comments43 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Train­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism (Mehmood et al.)

Nicholas Kruus🔸20 Mar 2024 17:54 UTC
28 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Hiski Haukkala: Policy mak­ers love their chil­dren too

EA Global29 Mar 2019 15:33 UTC
7 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

‘Scale is All You Need’ — Wri­teup of a Syn­thetic Biol­ogy Work­shop With the Astera In­sti­tute & Metaculus

christian5 Sep 2024 20:11 UTC
6 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Free Table­top Ex­er­cis­ing Course and Resources

Dr Dan Epstein28 Mar 2024 1:38 UTC
32 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

So­cial Benefi­cence (Ja­cob Bar­rett)

Global Priorities Institute19 Jul 2023 10:20 UTC
45 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

May 5th Event: Democ­racy, Altru­ism, & the Ethics of Transna­tional Aid

Mahendra Prasad5 May 2021 5:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Guid­ing civil ser­vants to Im­prove In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing through an ‘Im­pact Challenge’

Iftekhar1 Jul 2022 13:37 UTC
19 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

God Coin: A Modest Pro­posal

Mahdi Complex1 Apr 2024 12:02 UTC
4 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

Cul­ti­vate Labs hiring a data jour­nal­ist for gov­ern­ment projects

Henry Tolchard19 Feb 2022 13:34 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

The (Cal­ifor­nia) case for State Ca­pac­ity as an EA cause area

Locke4 Aug 2022 3:22 UTC
58 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

COVID: How did we do? How can we know?

Ghost_of_Li_Wenliang30 Jun 2021 12:29 UTC
170 points
47 comments9 min readEA link

Ve­toc­racy re­duc­tion and other co­or­di­na­tion prob­lems as po­ten­tial cause areas

John_Myers6 Feb 2022 18:21 UTC
29 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

An op­por­tu­nity to test Im­prov­ing in­sti­tu­tional de­ci­sion-making

Robp1254 Oct 2022 4:40 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA Anal­y­sis of the Ger­man Coal­i­tion Agree­ment 2021–2025

Yannick_Muehlhaeuser24 Jan 2022 13:25 UTC
75 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing of Pri­ori­ties: a tool for effec­tive poli­ti­cal par­ti­ci­pa­tion?

janklenha31 Dec 2020 15:24 UTC
27 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How might we rigor­ously mea­sure the out­puts of pub­lic in­vest­ment by de­fault?

Locke14 Jun 2022 16:05 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing In­sights for Impact

Christian Pearson4 Jan 2023 7:00 UTC
80 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

De­moc­ra­tiz­ing the work­place as a cause area

Bob Jacobs 🔸26 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC
38 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion: Gover­nance De­sign & Formation

RoboTeddy12 Aug 2022 5:39 UTC
25 points
8 comments15 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion as a tool to re­duce two ex­is­ten­tial risks.

johl@umich.edu19 Apr 2021 16:51 UTC
28 points
4 comments23 min readEA link

Fif­teen the­ses about the near fu­ture of gov­ern­ment operations

Locke11 Aug 2022 22:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive In­sti­tu­tions Pro­ject is hiring

Jam Kraprayoon9 Nov 2022 18:22 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(effectiveinstitutionsproject.org)

Help, Please: In­te­grat­ing EA Ideas into Large Re­search Organization

Lauren Zitney30 Oct 2021 1:23 UTC
37 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Nega­tive screen­ing and su­per­vis­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal li­a­bil­ities un­der IAS 37

Ramiro24 Mar 2021 14:25 UTC
6 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Re­search: A Re­search Agenda

jonasschuett6 Jan 2021 21:47 UTC
58 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

It seems hard to avoid sci­en­tific stag­na­tion due to the bur­den of knowl­edge in the long run

TobyW1 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

The most good sys­tem vi­sual and sta­bi­liza­tion steps

brb24314 Mar 2022 23:54 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tially high-im­pact job: Colorado Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture, Bureau of An­i­mal Pro­tec­tion Manager

alene10 Dec 2021 0:00 UTC
16 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.governmentjobs.com)

Is Democ­racy a Fad?

bgarfinkel13 Mar 2021 12:40 UTC
165 points
36 comments18 min readEA link

Bulk­ing in­for­ma­tion ad­di­tion­al­ities in global de­vel­op­ment for medium-term lo­cal prosperity

brb24311 Apr 2022 17:52 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Things I learned talk­ing to the new breed of sci­en­tific institution

Abhishaike30 Aug 2024 15:05 UTC
10 points
2 comments14 min readEA link
(www.owlposting.com)

Nar­ra­tion: Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

D0TheMath15 Jul 2021 16:26 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

EA Berkeley Pre­sents: Univer­sal Own­er­ship: Is In­dex In­vest­ing the New So­cially Re­spon­si­ble In­vest­ing?

Mahendra Prasad10 Mar 2022 6:58 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Reimag­in­ing Malev­olence: A Primer on Malev­olence and Im­pli­ca­tions for EA

Kenneth_Diao11 Apr 2024 12:50 UTC
27 points
3 comments44 min readEA link

De­sign­ing Ar­tifi­cial Wis­dom: De­ci­sion Fore­cast­ing AI & Futarchy

Jordan Arel14 Jul 2024 5:10 UTC
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Help in­crease the effec­tive­ness of UK aid

Ben Anderson2 Oct 2024 18:27 UTC
107 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

The Elec­toral Con­se­quences of Pan­demic Failure Project

Dale7 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

A Cri­tique of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors (ACE)

VettedCauses8 Nov 2024 17:08 UTC
45 points
52 comments1 min readEA link
(vettedcauses.com)

Time con­sis­tency for the EA com­mu­nity: Pro­jects that bridge the gap be­tween near-term boot­strap­ping and long-term targets

Arturo Macias12 Nov 2022 7:44 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Why scale is over­rated: The case for in­creas­ing EA policy efforts in smaller countries

Philip Hall Andersen15 Aug 2021 17:48 UTC
84 points
11 comments30 min readEA link

Tel­ling each other about ran­dom sam­ples of our daily lives (ex­per­i­ment)

Roman Kozhevnikov21 Jul 2022 17:33 UTC
3 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Cen­ter for Effec­tive Aid Policy (CEAP)

MathiasKB🔸23 Dec 2022 15:59 UTC
118 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Pre­doc open­ing at MIT Sloan for im­prov­ing hu­man collectives

vickyCYang10 Dec 2022 2:42 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Guess, ask or tell?

dEAsign19 Oct 2023 21:52 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ruth Lev­ine and Caitlin Tul­loch: The good, the bad, and the ugly of ev­i­dence-in­formed de­ci­sion mak­ing in global development

EA Global23 Jul 2020 14:35 UTC
13 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Most re­search/​ad­vo­cacy char­i­ties are not scalable

Kirsten7 Aug 2021 11:26 UTC
116 points
48 comments2 min readEA link

How Con­fir­ma­tion Bias Put An In­no­cent Man In Pri­son For 16 Years

Jared10121 Oct 2023 10:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Some thoughts on Pa­tient Longtermism

nora15 Mar 2021 9:13 UTC
46 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Let­ter to Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions

Alimi16 Jul 2023 14:33 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The Mess we are in and what we could do

Trev Prew12 Nov 2022 8:22 UTC
−12 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

EA orgs need to table­top more.

Dr Dan Epstein30 Jul 2023 20:45 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

EA for in­sti­tu­tions vs. in­di­vi­d­u­als?

EA_novice_Strathclyde31 Aug 2022 17:56 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Planned Up­dates to U.S. Reg­u­la­tory Anal­y­sis Meth­ods are Likely Rele­vant to EAs

MHR🔸7 Apr 2023 0:36 UTC
163 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Two Re­quire­ments for Any Welfare Payment

FCCC17 Jun 2020 13:07 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Is­sues with Futarchy

Lizka7 Oct 2021 17:24 UTC
63 points
8 comments25 min readEA link

Log­i­cal Foun­da­tions of Govern­ment Policy

FCCC10 Oct 2020 16:11 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

The Benev­olent Ruler’s Hand­book (Part 1): The Policy Problem

FCCC12 Aug 2023 14:24 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Democ­racy doesn’t have to suck (draft)

blainehansen29 Aug 2022 3:52 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Book re­view: The Dooms­day Machine

L Rudolf L18 Aug 2021 22:15 UTC
21 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(strataoftheworld.blogspot.com)

Fol­low-up on “In­sti­tu­tions for Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions”

tylermjohn19 Apr 2023 11:16 UTC
72 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Help im­prove rea­son­ing eval­u­a­tion in in­tel­li­gence organisations

Luke Thorburn11 May 2020 7:30 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Pro­ject Writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion: Im­prov­ing Cost-Benefit Anal­y­sis to Ac­count for Ex­is­ten­tial and Catas­trophic Risks

Mackenzie7 Jun 2022 9:37 UTC
104 points
8 comments9 min readEA link
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