Marcus Daniell

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Marcus Daniell 2 Feb 2023 22:00 UTC
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on: FIRE & EA: Seeking feedback on “Fi-lanthropy” Calculator
I love this Rebecca!
The only thing I’d want to see changed is to add a pledge % cell into the FI table at the top, so you can play around with the percentage right from the start.
I’m assuming people visiting the calculator will have at least some idea of what they’re about to look at.

Marcus Daniell 28 Jul 2022 0:31 UTC
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on: Making Effective Altruism Enormous
Thank you for writing this! I strongly agree that we should broaden the tent.
EA’s biggest weakness in my opinion is that almost nobody knows what it is. I’ve spoken to many hundreds of athletes about EA in the last 2 years and only a handful had any idea what it was (hadn’t heard the term) before I explained it. These are people with large audiences and cultural clout, who could be outsized levers in bringing the ideas to hundreds of millions.
However, EA as it presents itself right now seems quite exclusive. I don’t believe that broadening the tent would lessen the direction or determination of those who are “pure” EA, but would gather a much more powerful groundswell around it.

Marcus Daniell 6 Jul 2022 19:49 UTC
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on: Emphasizing emotional altruism in effective altruism
YES.
I love this post. I think EA has a weakness when it comes to storytelling and grabbing hearts. We’re great at appealing to the cerebral folk with careful reasoning and logic, but they’re a small minority. If we want EA ideas to percolate deeply we need to be outcompeting the other heart-grabbers, which means appealing to emotion and layering the logic on top. IMHO.

Marcus Daniell 13 Jun 2022 5:54 UTC
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in reply to: Charles He’s comment on: Two Tiny Requests from HIA, Two Mins of your Time
Totally. I’m being very tongue in cheek above.
The gist of the headline and the post is that community members can contribute to a potentially highly impactful project with a very trivial amount of time and energy spend.
I very much agree that good intros take time.

Marcus Daniell 12 Jun 2022 3:19 UTC
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in reply to: Kirsten’s comment on: Two Tiny Requests from HIA, Two Mins of your Time
Did you try?
I just tried it myself: followed three accounts in 17 seconds (having lost a couple of seconds in starting my stopwatch), which gave me 1m43s to think about my network and whether it includes athletes.
Also open to alternate headlines, e.g. Two tiny requests from HIA, A Variable Amount of your Time Depending on your Click Speed, Network Size, and Desire to Spend Time on the Task.

Marcus Daniell 12 Jun 2022 3:13 UTC
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in reply to: Guy Raveh’s comment on: Two Tiny Requests from HIA, Two Mins of your Time
Fair point, thanks.

Marcus Daniell 17 Feb 2022 19:58 UTC
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on: Why your EA group should promote effective giving (and how)
Hear hear

Marcus Daniell 7 Apr 2021 11:06 UTC
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in reply to: MaxRa’s comment on: Announcing “Naming What We Can”!
I’m on board.

Marcus Daniell 6 Mar 2021 3:53 UTC
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on: [Podcast] Marcus Daniell on High Impact Athletes, Communicating EA, and the Purpose of Sport
Loved this chat. Took some fun and unexpected turns! Thanks guys.

Marcus Daniell 4 Dec 2020 12:48 UTC
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in reply to: John G. Halstead’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
I’ve thought about getting in touch with them and seeing if they wanted to partner up somehow. From what I can see they don’t have any alignment with EA, so perhaps I could try and move the needle a bit towards that.

Marcus Daniell 1 Dec 2020 16:21 UTC
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in reply to: Sindy_Li’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
They’ve both been super helpful, particularly REG!

Marcus Daniell 1 Dec 2020 16:21 UTC
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in reply to: JoanMM’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
This is a fair point and one I’m not completely firm on myself.
The main reason for including Atmosfair and Burn are because in my experience pro athletes (particularly tennis players who fly almost every week) are particularly aware of their carbon footprint. Carbon offsetting is a relatively easy sell for this audience.
Dan Stein at Giving Green has done research on carbon offsetting’s impact, and specifically efficient cook stoves. https://www.givinggreen.earth/post/fuel-efficient-cookstoves
I recommend BURN, as well as Atmosfair’s cookstove program on HIA.
I’m curious, where do you get the 100x less effective figure from?

Marcus Daniell 30 Nov 2020 16:59 UTC
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in reply to: Marcus Daniell’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
Changed! Thanks for the input

Marcus Daniell 30 Nov 2020 16:59 UTC
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in reply to: Benjamin_Todd’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
Thanks Ben, great comment.
Do you think this approach works across the board? In my personal experience athletes are quite self-centred and asking for anything for free is a shock to them. So far, bringing up a percentage pledge has scared the vast majority of the athletes I’ve spoken to, despite giving myself as an example of someone for whom it works and feels good. Most have shied away from a percentage, asking to donate a discreet amount and maybe come in at a 1% pledge next year or the year after.
Perhaps this response is only typical for tennis players who have to earn their livings through winning matches, which is never a certainty, rather than being paid a salary like in most team sports. I haven’t yet spoken to any team athletes about HIA.
Also, I see the point about ‘saintly’ and have changed it. Thanks!

Marcus Daniell 30 Nov 2020 14:37 UTC
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in reply to: Alex HT’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
Also, I would love to have a wide variety of athletes represented by HIA. As it’s still very new I’m focusing outreach on those I have personal relationships with, which means tennis, which is predominantly white in the professional space at this point in time. I’m hoping that over time I can get in touch with a more diverse range of athletes from many different sports.

Marcus Daniell 30 Nov 2020 14:31 UTC
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in reply to: Alex HT’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
This is a good point and not one I’d thought of before. Thank you.
Re ‘saintly’, it is intended as a joke. Do you think it’s more offensive than funny? Or not worth the risk?
Re diversity, I can’t help that I’m the founder and I’m white, but having a more diverse advisory board sounds good. Do you have any ideas as to who would be good advisors for this sort of thing? Important to note that all the advisors are completely pro bono.

Marcus Daniell 30 Nov 2020 14:29 UTC
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in reply to: Alex HT’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
I would argue that most people reading the website are very wealthy—living in a western country almost inevitably qualifies you as very wealthy. For the main target audience—successful professional athletes—a 10% pledge would not change quality of life one whit.

Marcus Daniell 30 Nov 2020 14:25 UTC
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in reply to: Alex HT’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
See below about casting the net—being an athlete myself and knowing many personally I think longtermism is too much of a stretch conceptually for most athletes at this point.

Marcus Daniell 30 Nov 2020 14:24 UTC
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in reply to: Alex HT’s comment on: Introducing High Impact Athletes
Hi Alex, thanks for your comments! I’ll reply to each. I’m aiming to cast the net as widely as possible within the athlete community. To me this means mixing the novel (effective altruism) with the known. I think it is also valid to say that the animal welfare charities represented have a large impact on the environment.

Marcus Daniell 13 Sep 2020 15:58 UTC
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in reply to: Linch’s comment on: Are there any other pro athlete aspiring EAs?
Hi Linch,
By ‘code’ I mean sport. I’ve spoken to athletes from around 8 different sports thus far and have generally seen a lot of interest. But the big challenge is to go from hearing ‘that’s a cool idea’ to ‘how can I donate’.
I agree that inspiration and mentorship could both be huge, and I would also say that they begin from the same point of communication and education in the athlete community. The athletes can’t pass on what they don’t yet know.