I’ll just note that Animal Charity Evaluators have also produced video content.
Better Eating International is an animal charity who’s primary outreach medium is video, as well.
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The cost-effectiveness analysis contains more info on some of your questions. I’m not sure of the total number of donors, but they mention “two large cryptocurrency donations from a single donor make up 66% of total donations”.
The model they link to also breaks down total donations by donor-size.
Edit: the last time they link “Advice for responding to journalists”, the link works.
Here’s the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jU4snbnAIq-q4Dl_mIF0JyTT_bQrvS1wdBhQC1H-Bv8/edit
Here’s an interview with the author, Bryan Walsh: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/29/20830793/human-extinction-end-of-the-world-end-times-bryan-walsh
From the body of the top post and this page: https://eahotel.org/fundraiser/, it sounds like they had estimated they would spend £5000 per month but instead spent £5700 per month. That may have contributed to running out early.
I guess the question could remain where the extra £700/month came from.
I was just thinking that I didn’t really answer Gregory_Lewis’s question.
I also made a similarly sized donation.
Not my idea, but any fund that invests money to be dispersed by future generations, e.g. https://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/04/why-dont-we-help-future.html
You can now vote in Project 4 Awesome to help EA charities win grants of, judging by past years, $25,000 USD.
You can vote for each video for each charity, and each vote counts. Click on the thumbnail to access the voting page for each video.
GFI: http://projectforawesome.com/?charity=r0qlq6nE
AMF: http://projectforawesome.com/?charity=IFzDtIVb
Give Directly: http://projectforawesome.com/?charity=2rRk4r7S
Clean Air Taskforce: http://www.projectforawesome.com/?charity=YBH2SiFJ
It’s probably best to open one tab, do the CAPTCHA, and then open the rest of the tabs so you don’t have to repeat the CAPTCHA. (Credit to Michael; I have no idea how to link to users.)
Long term-ist book that I missed: “The Good Ancestor: How To Think Long Term in a Short-Term World” by Roman Krznaric, released in October 2020. (The US version has a different subtitle.)
And the TED Talk
I just started listening to the audiobook. I’m about 8 minutes in and he’s already mentioning existential risk from AI and pandemics. In the next lines he mentions Bostrom and alludes to Ord. He draws a parallel between colonialism’s disregard for indigenous populations and the practice of ignoring future people.
Edit: after the intro we start to veer away from EA and talk about e.g. extinction rebellion as role models. Talking about a 100+ year horizon as being long term thinking.
Searching on this forum, I can see that I missed references to it in https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/znaZXBY59Ln9SLrne/how-to-think-about-an-uncertain-future-lessons-from-other and https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ySwarSKFzxKLhCyo8/introduction-to-longtermism
A new-to-me take on the Amazon. Claims deforestation would lead to changing rain patterns “from Argentina up to the American midwest”, “which means that Amazon dieback would disrupt/destroy water and food supplies across much of the western hemisphere”. The article talks about the state of journalism, climate strategy, and climate science.
https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/revisiting-the-amazon-fires
Today I learned about Simpol, an org working on solving global coordination problems: https://simpol.org
Their approach is to encourage governments to work together to enact “simultaneous policy” across multiple issues to take action while avoiding first-mover challenges or a race to the bottom. By negotiating across multiple issues, concessions can be made to entities that might lose out in some areas in order to keep the entire negotiation net-positive for all.
So far my learning has been from this podcast episode, although it took a while to really explain the not-very-complex solution. https://www.jimruttshow.com/john-bunzl/
There is this talk that was delivered to TEDxGöteborg:
And you could try looking around in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ATRWGcN3GLouaWJIa6Za3xbLe5nuk0CQHhwhsBLTDvA/edit#gid=0
Edit: just refer to this list of orgs https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/f6kg8T2Lp6rDqxWwG/list-of-ea-related-organisations
+ see the Founder’s Pledge funds that Michael shared https://www.every.org/founderspledge
Here’s the subset of longtermist and infrastructure orgs I was able to find on the site:
- Founder’s Pledge (also their funds that Michael links in another comment)- Future of Life Institute
- The Center for Human-Compatible AI- Legal Priorities Project
- Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Rethink Charity
- Rethink Priorities
- Centre For Effective Altruism
- Center for Election Science- Generation Pledge
- Center for Applied Rationality
- WANBAM
From “Clarifying the Giving What We Can pledge” in 2017 (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/drJP6FPQaMt66LFGj/clarifying-the-giving-what-we-can-pledge#How_permanent_is_the_Pledge__)
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How permanent is the Pledge?The Pledge is a promise, or oath, to be made seriously and with every expectation of keeping it. But if someone finds that they can no longer keep the Pledge (for instance due to serious unforeseen circumstances), then they can simply contact us, discuss the matter if need be, and cease to be a member. They can of course rejoin later if they renew their commitment.
Some of us find the analogy of marriage a helpful one: you make a promise with firm intent, you make life plans based on it, you structure things so that it’s difficult to back out of, and you commit your future self to doing something even if you don’t feel like it at the time. But at the same time, there’s a chance that things will change so drastically that you will break this tie.
Breaking the Pledge is not something to be done for reasons of convenience, or simply because you think your life would be better if you had more money. But we believe there are two kinds of situations where it’s acceptable to withdraw from the Pledge.
One situation is when it would impose extreme costs for you. If you find yourself in hardship and don’t have any way to donate what you committed to while maintaining a reasonable quality of life for yourself and your dependants, this is a good reason to withdraw your Pledge. (Note that during unemployment you donate only 1% of spending money, as described under “Circumstances that change the Pledge” below.)
The other is when you find that you have an option to do more good. For example, imagine you pledged and are now deciding whether to found a nonprofit (which will take all your financial resources) or keep your “day job” in order to be able to donate 10%. If you have good reason to believe that the nonprofit will do significantly more good than the donations, that founding the nonprofit is not compatible with donating 10% of your income, and that you would not be able to make up the gap in donations within a couple of years, withdrawing your Pledge would be a reasonable thing to do.
The spirit of the Pledge is not to stop you from doing more good, and is not to lead you to ruin. If you find that it’s doing either of these things, you should probably break the Pledge.
We understand that some people have a very strong definition of “pledge” as meaning something that must not be broken under any circumstances. If this is your sense of the word, and you wouldn’t want to take a pledge if there were any chance of you being unable to keep it, you might find that Try Giving on an ongoing basis is a better fit for you.
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For what it’s worth, I think it makes sense to stop pledging if that would allow you to do more good.
My path to EA started by reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which was recommended to me by friends. After that I was looking around on LessWrong and saw a post mentioning The Life You Can Save (book) by Peter Singer. Reading that motivated me to dive in. One of the first things I did after that was watch EA Global videos.