AMF (1:1 matched through EANZ on top of usual tax advantages), ALLFED and a couple curries to a CB
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As an organising team this is a concern we take very seriously. Following a review Ruben and I have both secured jobs in Wellington.
Great writeup and cool the dads at the back of the lecture theatre story made it worldwide!
First link broken can use this First timers at EAG video (Bay Area ā22).
Thanks for writing this list! Linking it to everyone at the NZ Summit 2025.
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Agree fullyāthere will be 0 group brainstorming at the upcoming NZ Summit :)
Not bad you old horse, reckon you should add a paragraph about HO years and how logistically you ended up getting the first role in Gulu. Thatās what most med students Iāve talked to about you end up asking me. An exaggeration, but thereās a bit of insecurity that you need to be a 15 year post graduation Infectious Disease consultant before you can make the jump
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Aha used to have a bit of a google doc going. Could probably use an update.
Great post Annika! Practical, FWI seems quite cool and LOVE the dogs. Iām off to rural India too next week.
And I hear thereās an EANZ summit being organised in Christchurch in September;)
Keep up the good stuff!
Not involved, but awesome! Iām quite keen to see what you find
Thanks for everything you all do! Have been consistently impressed with ALLFEDās work and its importance. Donated $1000 NZD, hope it helps somewhere. Good luck with the triaging
Great stuff!
Iām noticing I donāt have a very good mental model for this (if I assume youāre interested primarily in maximising effective GHD donations). Would love other peopleās insight.
I saw that OPās bar for funding was about ~$50 per DALY averted in Oct 2023. Excerpt from OP below:
Weāve reduced the annual rate of our funding for GiveWellās recommendations because our ābarā for funding in our Global Health and Wellbeing (GHW) portfolio has risen substantially. In July 2022, it was roughly in the range of 1100x-1200x; we recently raised it to slightly over 2000x. That means we need to be averting a DALY for ~$50 (because we value DALYs at $100K) or increasing income for 4 people by ~1% for a year for $1 (because we use a logarithmic utility function anchored at $50K).
Some more questions:
How do GiveWellās current top charity recommendations each sit at $/āDALY-averted?Does that mean that we can expect a donation to GiveWell to be buying DALY-aversions for >$50? (But less than what?) (I know that doing this calculation is not always a great idea, but keen to know how OP and GiveWell are thinking about this if they have)
What are reasonable alternatives to consider in this space? (Iām aware of other great non-GHD donation opportunities)
Re:fully funded, my vague mental model is they have a list of projects, ordered in some way, and then they fill till they run out of money +/ā- saving for future opportunities. Would love to know whether this is accurate.
Cheers for the practical post question.
Love your work!
I was literally starting to compile a list like this for myself personally. Thank you!
Bit late to the party and mostly meandering from the footnote but Iāve been thinking about this as well. +1 for the reference to Liu Cixinās Three-Body problem series (Rememberance of Earthās Past). Warning mild spoilers below although Iāve tried to keep them to a minimum.
While the physics used were super sci-fi, this has been the best book series Iāve read that really made me āfeelā the concepts of Longtermism and how they related to x-risk on a planetary scale. Few thoughts:Two bits I thought were particularly well done were a) the experiences of those waking up from hibernation tech (they woke up to a world significantly different than they predicted, and you could feel their disorientation) and b) the Australia chapter where you really get a sense of how horrific worst case x-risks might be
The speculative fiction on how society might respond to lots of these existential challanges also seems like good material to be able to reference and try to find solutions to in a common cultural language. E.g. as discussed here (Including referencing how a particular scenario is not like the one described).
The fact that it is written by one of the most popular Chinese Fiction writers seems like a major positive in terms of providing common ground for international cultural common ground between representatives of superpowers.
A counterpoint to promoting this may be his personal comments on politics in modern China, but I didnāt get the impression that his writing in the series was problematically anti-democratic.
I donāt want to update too much on something like āthis is a representative view of how Chinese society tends to think about the long-term futureā. If anyone has any insight on this Iād love to know.
Would it be a good idea to promote reading Liu Cixinās books on these merits above? How does it compare to other longtermist fiction for Instilling Cultural Longtermism?
Iām unsure about the tractability and desireability of a date-on-consititution-change. My major crux would be how much bipartisan support you could get.
Great writeup! Appreciate the detail