Hey Larks,
[For transparency—I no longer work at EV.]
Yep—this was followed up on. Here are links to the pages for EV UK and EV US.
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This is correct. We ended up needing to resolve a couple issues related to the inquiry before we can file. We’ve stayed in touch with the Charity Commission about the delay.
Additional restaurants I’d recommend:
Buddha Bodai (Chinatown) has my favorite vegetarian Chinese food.
The non-vegetarian colleagues I introduced it to ended up ordering lunch there once/week for months.
When I was in college, it was one of two restaurants that helped convince me I could survive as a vegetarian. (RIP Williamsburg’s Foodswings, which had the world’s best vegan buffalo wings).
Red Bamboo (Washington Square Park) has great vegan bbq wings and chicken.
I wanted to make some additional non-EA recommendations but don’t want to blow up the comments section with non-EA stuff, so here’s a thread for people to do that.
Thanks for sharing. I think it was brave and I appreciated getting to read this. I’m sorry you’ve had to go through this and am glad to hear you’re feeling optimistic.
This seems like an improvement to me. Thanks!
Feedback on a minor pain point for me. When I’m looking at quick takes on the front page and want to go to the permalink for the relevant take (e.g. to see all the discussion under it), I often look around for a big title to click on for a while before remembering that I’m supposed to click on the icon on the top right, which is small, doesn’t stand out much, and feels too me like it’s somehow violating an implicit expectation I have for where to find this for this kind of content.
I have no clue whether this is just me, whether this is worth addressing, or what a good solution would be. (It does make sense to me that quick takes don’t have big titles like a normal top level post would.)
Probably the best thing I got out of two years in law school. . .
I’d wondered about this. Doing this survey seems like a really useful contribution. Thanks!
I think this was a cool post and I’m excited to see this kind of discussion here. (I think it misses a bunch of advantages of small orgs but seems fine to have a post that’s mostly about the disadvantages. unfortunately don’t have time to write out my object level thoughts here—just wanted to be clear that this comment is a “like” not a “(fully) agree.” )
what percent of Google SWEs hit $500k?
I wonder if Jack would be equally happy with the weaker claim that giving 10% is not advisable for the median American in their twenties. I’m not sure whether I’d agree even with that but wm it seems more plausible to me than claiming it’s not feasible.
Hey Bob—Howie from EV UK here. Thanks for flagging this! I definitely see why this would look concerning so I just wanted to quickly chime in and let you/others know that we’ve already gotten in touch with relevant regulators about this and I don’t think there’s much to worry about here.
The thing going on is that EV UK has an extended filing deadline (from 30 April to 30 June 2023) for our audited accounts,[1] which are one of the things included in our Annual Return. So back in April, we notified the Charity Commission that we’ll be filing our Annual Return by 30 June.
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This is due to a covid extension, which the UK government has granted to many companies.
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[Only a weak recommendation.] I last looked at this >5 years ago and never read the whole thing. But FYI that Katja Grace wrote a case study on the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, which established a bunch of voluntary guidelines that have been influential in biotech. Includes analogy to AI safety. (No need to pay me.) https://intelligence.org/files/TheAsilomarConference.pdf
Hi, thanks for raising these questions. I wanted to confirm that Effective Ventures has seen this and is looking into it. We take our legal obligations seriously and have started an internal review to make sure we know the relevant facts.
Hi Matt—thanks for the suggestion. I agree that we should have a page like this. I’ve asked someone to take this on but we’ve got a lot of things to update at the moment so it won’t go up immediately. In the meantime, CEA’s team page has links to bios for most of the trustees here.
Thanks for the update on this! I don’t think I’d heard about it.
“In 1993, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in radio from Emerson College in Boston,[4] where one of his professors was the writer David Foster Wallace”
Yes — since the first week of the crisis, Nick and Will have been recused from the relevant discussions / decisions on the boards of both EV entities to avoid any potential conflict of interest. Staff in both EV entities were informed about that decision in mid-November.
The 80k podcast also has some potentially relevant episodes though they’re prob not directly what you most want.
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/phil-trammell-patient-philanthropy/
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/will-macaskill-ambition-longtermism-mental-health/
Maybe especially the section on patient philanthropy.
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/will-macaskill-what-we-owe-the-future/
Some bits of this. E.g. some of the bits on political donations.
No worries! It takes a couple clicks to get there.