lukefreeman

Char­ity Nav­i­ga­tor ac­quired Im­pactMat­ters and is start­ing to men­tion “cost-effec­tive­ness” as important

• lukefreeman 28 Sep 2020 23:49 UTC

  14 points

  on: lukefree­man’s Shortform

  Covid-19 has re­versed years of gains in the war on poverty

  This coro­n­avirus af­fects ev­ery­one, but not equally. The young of­ten shrug off the virus; the old of­ten die of it. The rich shrug off the eco­nomic shock; the poor can­not. Be­cause of covid-19, the num­ber of ex­tremely poor peo­ple (ie, those mak­ing less than $1.90 a day) will rise by 70m-100m this year, the World Bank pre­dicts. Us­ing a broader mea­sure, in­clud­ing those who lack ba­sic shelter or clean wa­ter and chil­dren who go hun­gry, the ranks of the poor will swell by 240m-490m this year, says the un. That could re­verse al­most a decade of progress (see ar­ti­cle). If a vac­cine is found, economies will no doubt bounce back. But wide­spread vac­ci­na­tion will take years and the very poor can­not wait that long. By then, malnu­tri­tion will have stunted a tragic num­ber of chil­dren’s bod­ies and minds.

  Full ar­ti­cle pay­walled at The Economist

lukefree­man’s Shortform

• lukefreeman 28 Sep 2020 10:29 UTC

  4 points

  on: Why doesn’t EA Fund sup­port Pay­pal?

  Looks like CEA is on there, but no abil­ity to seg­ment by spe­cific funds. Prob­a­bly due to it be­ing a sin­gle char­ity. Each of the EA Funds (along with GWWC and other pro­grams) are pro­grams within CEA (a reg­istered char­ity in the USA and UK).

  Similarly other char­i­ties with sin­gle pro­grams (like GiveDirectly which has Ba­sic In­come, USA etc), it looks like you can’t spec­ify what pro­gram you want it to go to.

5,000 peo­ple have pledged to give at least 10% of their life­time in­comes to effec­tive charities

• lukefreeman 16 Sep 2020 0:12 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Aaron Gertler’s comment on: Can my film­mak­ing/​song­writ­ing skills be used more effec­tively in EA?

  Had no idea this ex­isted… join­ing!

• lukefreeman 24 Aug 2020 5:41 UTC

  2 points

  on: Re­view: What works to pro­mote char­i­ta­ble dona­tions?

  Great work team!

Cause/​char­ity se­lec­tion tradeoffs

• lukefreeman 24 Aug 2020 4:46 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: jackmalde’s comment on: Are we ne­glect­ing ed­u­ca­tion? Philos­o­phy in schools as a longter­mist area

  The ex­pe­rience has been re­ally fan­tas­tic. Very re­ward­ing, plus it’s helped with train­ing my ‘so­cratic ques­tion­ing’ style with adults 😀

• lukefreeman 10 Aug 2020 4:01 UTC

  8 points

  on: For those work­ing on longter­mist pro­jects, how do you stay mo­ti­vated in the short-term?

  Per­son­ally, I find this an ar­gu­ment for be­ing more emo­tion­ally mo­ti­vated by near term out­comes (even while be­ing more philo­soph­i­cally mo­ti­vated by long term out­comes).

  Three ways I’ve seen this done well (of­ten in tan­dem):

  1. Diver­sity of at­ten­tion: Work­ing on a longter­mist pro­ject while pay­ing at­ten­tion to to how other parts of their lives (e.g. al­lo­cat­ing some dona­tions for ad­dress­ing more im­me­di­ate prob­lems, chang­ing diet for moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion, build­ing re­la­tion­ships, hob­bies, cre­ative works) bring them joy and mo­ti­va­tion. It could be very de­mo­ti­vat­ing if one is purely “all-in” (de­vot­ing huge amounts of time/​thought/​iden­tity) on some­thing that feels in­cred­ibly far away.

  2. Fo­cus on near-term out­comes of longter­mist pro­jects. For ex­am­ple, you’re fo­cused on long term poli­ti­cal sta­bil­ity and work­ing on chang­ing the vot­ing sys­tem of a lo­cal gov­ern­ment area and the im­me­di­ate benefit that pro­vides peo­ple.

  3. Fo­cus on im­me­di­ate progress to­wards longter­mist pro­jects. Every pro­ject has goals that you reach such as get­ting fund­ing, pub­lish­ing a pa­per, hiring a new col­league, run­ning an event. Take the time to cel­e­brate these wins.

• lukefreeman 10 Aug 2020 2:55 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: trammell’s comment on: A List of EA Dona­tion Pledges (GWWC, etc)

  The GWWWC Try Giv­ing pledge (any per­cent above 1%, any pe­riod of time)

  https://​​www.giv­ing­whatwe­can.org/​​get-in­volved/​​try-giv­ing/​​

• lukefreeman 31 Jul 2020 3:32 UTC

  4 points

  on: Are we ne­glect­ing ed­u­ca­tion? Philos­o­phy in schools as a longter­mist area

  There’s Pri­mary Ethics in Aus­tralia that is start­ing to take off in schools. Some of us in the EA Syd­ney group vol­un­teered to be teach­ers (mostly tel­ling sto­ries from a script and fa­cil­i­tat­ing dis­cus­sion to help kids dis­cuss eth­i­cal ques­tions).

• lukefreeman 29 Jul 2020 20:52 UTC

  2 points

  on: What is a good an­swer for peo­ple new to EA that re­quest ad­vice on vol­un­teer­ing?

  There’s also this https://​​www.ea­work.club/​​

• lukefreeman 29 Jul 2020 20:50 UTC

  2 points

  on: What is a good an­swer for peo­ple new to EA that re­quest ad­vice on vol­un­teer­ing?

  I think a lo­cal op­por­tu­nity is a nice way for peo­ple to meet peo­ple around them (e.g. be on wel­com­ing duty at a lo­cal meetup) and then re­mote can be valuable if done well.

  We’re cur­rently tak­ing vol­un­teers at Giv­ing What We Can also 😀

  Here’s the ex­pres­sion of in­ter­est form: http://​​bit.ly/​​gwwc-volunteer

• lukefreeman 26 Jul 2020 23:16 UTC

  2 points

  on: Four EA pod­cast episodes

  Have sub­scribed and down­loaded the epi­sodes you men­tioned. Look­ing for­ward to hear­ing them 😀

• lukefreeman 26 Jul 2020 23:14 UTC

  25 points

  in reply to: MarisaJurczyk’s comment on: Should we think more about EA dat­ing?

  Another against:

  I also find it very helpful to be very close to peo­ple who share a lot of core val­ues but are not en­tirely al­igned/​iden­tities aren’t too similar. You end up with di­ver­sity of thought in your own life. Plus, it’s a lot bet­ter to bounce off and model the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion when you have peo­ple near and dear to you who think differ­ently.

• lukefreeman 21 Apr 2020 23:39 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: MichaelPlant’s comment on: Should there be an EA crowd­fund­ing plat­form?

  I’m pleas­antly im­pressed you per­pet­u­ated a good so­cial norm by thank­ing some­one for per­pet­u­at­ing a good so­cial norm. Well done and thank you.

• lukefreeman 9 Oct 2019 3:58 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: laurenwhetstone’s comment on: EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Com­mu­nity De­mo­graph­ics & Characteristics

  Alas an­other year goes by and Syd­ney doesn’t make the cut de­spite host­ing an­other EAGx 😜

• lukefreeman 23 Jul 2019 8:18 UTC

  14 points

  on: EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Geo­graphic Differ­ences in EA

  Nice work, again!

  In fu­ture years I’d be very in­ter­ested in see­ing a cit­i­zen­ship ques­tion and a ques­tion about what city some­one was in when they first be­came in­volved in EA. In Aus­tralia it’s a run­ning joke that we have an EA brain drain to USA/​UK, es­pe­cially for di­rect work op­por­tu­ni­ties (not­ing also that Aus­tralia has many fewer di­rect work op­por­tu­ni­ties as is also a way to read the data).

  Find­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for peo­ple to do good with­out need­ing to re­lo­cate (some­times leav­ing a vac­uum in com­mu­nity build­ing in the city they are from) is some­thing we’re very in­ter­ested in ex­plor­ing fur­ther.

• lukefreeman 19 May 2019 21:59 UTC

  2 points

  on: In­tro­duc­ing Spar­row: a user-friendly app to sim­plify effec­tive giving

  I re­ally love this con­cept guys and the pro­to­type is fan­tas­tic!

  I can’t get a han­dle on the full func­tion­al­ity as I’m in Aus­tralia so I strongly en­courage the US folk here on the fo­rum to down­load it and have a go as you guys will get the proper ex­pe­rience.

  Feed­back and user test­ing makes a big differ­ence for the suc­cess of these apps – also bear­ing in mind when get­ting feed­back from EAs that most peo­ple aren’t like a lot of EAs so will pre­fer sim­plic­ity over de­tail.

  Keep up the awe­some work!!