Former and, hopefully, future software developer.
(My organizing is not a professional role; I just wanted it to show up in the directory view.)
Kevin Ulug
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There’s a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/
I think the comments aren’t exactly what you’d get on this forum but some of them are helpful and accurate.
Here are lists or courses that I collected that I’m too lazy to reconcile with the above:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xwhu3HGG2BtjLNpLcbFGLdmZm2kPbDi1-XlBukYf-0o/editList of university courses on effective altruism
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Bd4xeHeNgBywrofW6/psychology-of-effective-altruism-course-syllabus-1 - psychology of effective altruism syllabus
‘Doing good better—moral philosophy and Effective Altruism’ course syllabus.
Another list of EA courses—not strictly at academies https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AaaIcmKNl1Zk57gT-E6YOaxOXSUJUqCjjeIjv153bxk/edit
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The EA subreddit is getting more participation from critics and/or people understandably upset about FTX. This is resulting in some low quality posts hitting the frontpage of the subreddit, since it’s so small and not very active.
I used to donate monthly instead of at the end of the year. I eventually decided there were advantages to donating at the end of the year* , though there may be ways to seek both benefits like donating a small portion monthly to get the good good feelings more often.
* orgs have a more complete picture of their funding need, donation matching opportunities, maybe you’d benefit from something like donating stock which may have some overhead you don’t want to repeat, you have the most information available, evaluators have put out their new recommendations, …
The Effective Institutions Project might count as this. There may be more relevant projects, depending on what counts—like the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance, the Center for Election Science.
The kinds of things filed under “Broad Longtermism”, perhaps.
Maybe work on impact markets and prediction markets.
(For some reason I didn’t fully read acylhalide’s answer and I see that I listed some of the same things.)
See also posts with similar tags, such as career-advising.
The EA Newsletter highlights certain job postings, prizes, etc
Bonus, from the EA Newsletter: If you’re interested in policy or global development, you may also want to check Tom Wein’s list of social purpose job boards.
I don’t want to imply that this must be a barrier to action, but how much time have you spent digging in to questions relevant to cause prioritization? Your priorities might change as you investigate more.
Here are a couple flowcharts—if you haven’t engaged with a particular question before, like really grappled with whether animals have moral status, you might find your priorities change as you think through these considerations.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TCtbuGC3yBisToXxZ/a-guided-cause-prioritisation-flowchart
http://globalprioritiesproject.org/2015/09/flowhart/
Local or online groups may have career workshops or 1-1s available with people who could offer advice.
[Question] What resources should job seekers know about?
I’d say start with this opportunities board https://ea-internships.pory.app/ - you can filter for volunteer opportunities. Heck, maybe some part-time work would be relevant as well.
There’s also this Facebook group for EA volunteering https://www.facebook.com/groups/1392613437498240
You could also try things like applying to EAGx Virtual and try to find out about projects by just asking people.
I’d guess that a lot of non-longtermist, non-EA-meta charities are more more likely to be funding constrained and less likely to be topped up by FTX. I also suspect FTX isn’t taking up all the opportunities for organizations to spend money, even for the ones it supports.
I suspect organizations with a research focus, such as Sentience Institute, ALLFED, and other answers on this post, are often happy to hire more researcher time with marginal donations.
Organizations that do marketing probably have room to spend more there, such as 80,000 Hours and Giving What We Can. GWWC wrote earlier this year that they were looking for funding (I’m not sure what the status of that is).
I believe the Center for Election Science is looking for more funding since approval voting has a lot of room to grow in the US—it sounds like their goal is to scale campaigns with more funding.
I’m not sure how much room they have, but probably Effective Institutions Project.
Some other career orgs:
https://www.probablygood.org/
https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/
And for what it’s worth, 80,000 Hours has a bunch global health & animal related postings on their job board.