Former professional poker player
Crypto enthusiast
Aspiring hedonic utilitarian
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It was heartwarming to read the shoutout, I appreciate it!
Did LTFF decline you grant application? Have you applied to manifund.org?
Iām sorry I didnāt express myself clearly. By āselect people carefullyā, I meant selecting for correct motivations, that you have tried to filter for using the subsistence salary. I would prefer using some other selection mechanism (like references), and then provide a solid paycheck (like MIRI does).
Itās certainly noble to give away everything beyond 30k like Singer and MacAskill do, but I think it should be a choice rather than a requirement.
Well, such a low pay creates additional mental pressure to resist temptation to get 5-10x money in a normal job. Iād rather select people carefully, but then provide them with at least a ~middle class wage
Did anyone consider ELOing the longtermist projects for āRetrospective grant evaluationsā. Seems like it could be relatively fast by crowdsourcing comparisons, and orthogonal to other types of estimates
Decentralizing speeding cameras
What if anyone could buy a certified speed camera that can be installed on a building a or a moving car?
Wouldnāt it instantly solve all traffic violations and so massively reduce death toll, if the hardware is cheap enough, which is probably the case in 2023?
MckĀievās Quick takes
The main upside of a DAO is that the storage of funds and each grant distribution is protected by the algorithm that has been embedded in the smart contract, instead of being trusted to some entity (e.g. bank or crypto trading firm). The movement of funds is also maximally transparent for any person on the internet. I think it is a big benefit in some cases (although, not in every case)
To be clear, Iām donāt support of the actual proposal that the author have laid out int his next post, but I support the idea of experimenting with DAOs for EA and certain it would happen at some point
My idea would be to implement mvp for Badge Collecting for EAs: e.g. badge on EA forum showing that you have been at EAG or EAGx. Or GWWC pledge giver etc. Kind of like https://āāpoap.xyz/āā
At a first pass it can be made as a chrome extension that would display these badges to users who have opted in, and without any blockchain whatsoever ;)
I think itās just fun to show off your involvement with the community. More importantly it would be one more step towards developing online reputation system
In the future this system can be extended in more sophisticated ways. E.g. badges that can be displayed on demand, or only to a subset of users. Or badges that contain more data that just ābeen thereā. I donāt feel comfortable sharing amount of personal donations with everyone, but maybe the frequency could be fine? Or maybe sharing the donation trends over time could be encouraging?
Iām only familiar with python and have zero web coding skills: anyone is up to join?
I wonder what is the relationship between a prize pool size and accuracy of predictions. It seems that EA community can easily 10x the size of a reward if it would be helpful for such a cool project. At this size the prizes seem more like a token on appreciation than a tool to motivate participation
Judging by the stats page LTFF currently has 2M in the bank, which is an evidence against being funding constrained. If LTFF have distributed ~all the funds and managers put up a post saying e.g. : āhere are 20 more grants totalling 10M weād really like to see fundedā, the argument would have sounded more persuasive, and i would predict the funding gap could get closed relatively quickly by some crypto magnate.
I appreciate the author starting this conversation and would really love to see comment from LTFF here