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MichaelDickens

Karma: 4,178

I do independent research on EA topics. I write about whatever seems important, tractable, and interesting (to me). Lately, I mainly write about EA investing strategy, but my attention span is too short to pick just one topic.

I have a website: https://​​mdickens.me/​​ Most of the content on my website gets cross-posted to the EA Forum.

My favorite things that I’ve written: https://​​mdickens.me/​​favorite-posts/​​

I used to work as a software developer at Affirm.

A Com­par­i­son of Donor-Ad­vised Fund Providers

MichaelDickens9 Mar 2022 18:53 UTC
100 points
28 comments11 min readEA link

The Risk of Con­cen­trat­ing Wealth in a Sin­gle Asset

MichaelDickens29 Apr 2022 17:58 UTC
97 points
20 comments11 min readEA link

“Dis­ap­point­ing Fu­tures” Might Be As Im­por­tant As Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

MichaelDickens3 Sep 2020 1:15 UTC
96 points
18 comments25 min readEA link

Should Earn­ers-to-Give Work at Star­tups In­stead of Big Com­pa­nies?

MichaelDickens12 Nov 2021 22:55 UTC
85 points
22 comments24 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the Philan­thropic Dis­count Rate

MichaelDickens3 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC
79 points
21 comments37 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Un­known Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

MichaelDickens23 Jul 2020 19:09 UTC
72 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

How Much Lev­er­age Should Altru­ists Use?

MichaelDickens7 Jan 2020 4:25 UTC
70 points
64 comments43 min readEA link

Un­cor­re­lated In­vest­ments for Altruists

MichaelDickens23 Nov 2020 23:03 UTC
58 points
15 comments25 min readEA link

[Question] What are some high-EV but failed EA pro­jects?

MichaelDickens13 May 2022 16:01 UTC
45 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Donor-Ad­vised Funds vs. Tax­able Ac­counts for Pa­tient Donors

MichaelDickens19 Oct 2020 20:38 UTC
44 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

A Com­plete Quan­ti­ta­tive Model for Cause Selection

MichaelDickens18 May 2016 2:17 UTC
42 points
44 comments22 min readEA link

If ev­ery­one makes the same crit­i­cism, the op­po­site crit­i­cism is more likely to be true

MichaelDickens17 Dec 2022 0:30 UTC
41 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

How Do AI Timelines Affect Giv­ing Now vs. Later?

MichaelDickens3 Aug 2021 3:36 UTC
36 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

My Cause Selec­tion: Michael Dickens

MichaelDickens15 Sep 2015 23:29 UTC
36 points
69 comments43 min readEA link

A Pre­limi­nary Model of Mis­sion-Cor­re­lated Investing

MichaelDickens4 Apr 2022 18:50 UTC
34 points
2 comments22 min readEA link