<< because of how small we are>> Pretty sure heās already including himself in the list!
itās crazy how many absolute pioneers are omitted here and the fact itās hard for James to list them as someone hosting a podcast interviewing so many talented people and as a donor should be far more concerning to us.
Rethink Priorities moral weights
What a great post, thank you so much for doing this important work.
Iām interested to know why you chose to āstill think ACEās funds and recommendations are worth considering for impact-focused donors and we will continue to host them on the GWWC donation platformā and later say āACEās charity evaluation process does not currently measure marginal cost-effectiveness to a sufficient extent for us to rely directly on the resulting charity recommendationsā. I understand that there may be hope for the future but right now if the role of EA is to nudge people to the opportunities that have the highest marginal impact per dollar, shouldnāt GWWC focus exclusively on EAWF, or are you saying there is something lacking in the analysis here?
Would appreciate some clarification
I feel similarly confused with this somewhat arbitrary categorisation which also seems heavily flawed.
CE is in itās nature a narrow career focus, it focuses just on entrepreneurs in the neartermist space and is highly biased to thinking this is the most impactful career someone can do, whilst for many starting a new charity would not be. It seems a large stretch to put CE in this category and also doesnt seem to be where CE focuses its time and energy. HIP also focuses just on mid-career professionals but itās hard to know what they are doing as they seem to change what they are doing and their target audience relatively often.
80,000 hours, Probably Good and Animal Advocacy Careers seem broader in their target audience and seem like the most natural fit for being the most impactful career community. They also advise people on how they can do the most effective thing although obviously, they all have their own biases based on their cause prioritisation.
This seems absurd to me, why do vegans have to justify their diets and non vegans dont? Why do you assume that eating meat should be the default and what do you say to the numerous articles and research that suggest most meat is very unhealthy for humans to consume
Thanks for writing this Peter, i really like the critcisms. I would have loved to see some suggestions on solutions even if they are super early initial ideas.
One thing i did want to comment on in particular was this << I think EA, and especially longtermism, has pretty homogenous demographics in a way that I think reduces our impact>>
I think its a good point but i think a large part of it is due to how unwelcoming EA is to women and how hard it is to be taken seriously as a woman in the EA community. As an example i would be curious to know how many of the posts on the EA forum are written by women vs. men and how many of the top posts are written by women. I could be wrong here maybe its not that different because i havent done the analysis. But anecdotally i know at least 3 women who write their own EA related blogs but wouldnt bother to write on the EA forum, feeling like they would be shot down or not valued.
Secondly without wanting my opinion to be cancelled as being āsocial justiceā I dont think this is just a gender problem, it is also a race issue as argued here: https://āāforum.effectivealtruism.org/āāposts/āāoD3zus6LhbhBj6z2F/āāred-teaming-contest-demographics-and-power-structures-in-ea
I genuinely think this is going to be a limiting factor for EA if it continues in this way and that makes me very sad, more should be done to proactively attract, welcome and retain other genders and race, otherwise this will continue to affect our talent issues.
Can you write some more about HIPās impact before 2024? How many pledges and career transitions have you had since starting HIP?