Amusingly, I can see this being useful as a dumb exposure therapy game for people (um, me) who put off applying for roles out of fear of rejection.
Mitchell Laughlin🔸
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Downvoted as I don’t think this type of content should be tolerated on the EA Forum. When I click on posts on April 1 (which coincidentally is my birthday), I expect to leave after a ‘ha ha funny’, not a ‘ha ha, this is fine, oh wait, no it’s not, someone please help me deal with my now increased existential dread’
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Yours sincerely,
Mitchell (is unfortunately not) Laugh(l)ing
I worry I’m too pessimistic in general, but the world economy (and general living standards), have improved significantly over time, and farmed animal welfare seems to be a lot worse. That seems to be evidence to me that amazing technological progress won’t be sufficient for animal welfare progress.
Kudos to you for taking such a serious pay cut to work on something you feel is important. ‘Made me laugh’ reacting only because reading ‘I yearn for the diamond emoji’ did make me chuckle.
I agree with all of the points you’ve raised, but am holding off on agree voting for the moment. Do you know why that EAG restricted handing out materials?
Can confirm, and happy to vouch.
Tax-effective Australian charities and funds:Against Malaria Foundation
Deworm the World Initiative (led by Evidence Action)
Effective Altruism Australia
GiveDirectly
Giving What We Can
Helen Keller International
Malaria Consortium
New Incentives
One Acre Fund
StrongMinds
Unlimit Health (formerly SCI)
All Grants Fund by GiveWell
Top Charities Fund by GiveWell
Environment Fund by Giving Green
Do you (/anyone reading this) know if TapTapSend is for-profit (/whether they’re just using their current profits to scale but have hopes of slashing fees once they do so)?
I know very little about the business model of remittance companies, but from two seconds’ worth of thought, this seems like an area where a nonprofit could try to undercut the market and provide a massive public good.
I really don’t have a strong view, but I find myself sympathetic to the idea that the world is not great and is getting worse (if you consider non-human animals).
This post was really inspiring, (+1ing gergo) thank you for writing it. I’m glad you exist.
Hi Barth, my very quick take would be that (if you hadn’t already done so) there may be merits to reaching out to a careers advising org such as 80K Hours. I intuitively imagine that there are quite a few organizations that would benefit from either hiring or receiving advising from someone of your expertise, and that (e.g.,) 80K would be able to point you in the right direction.
Copy-pasting a comment I made after a careers event I ran*an events org(*edit: reread this and realized I was illiterate) for EA Sydney (some of which may be relevant to you):
80,000 Hours—
Career guide: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
- Career planning series: https://80000hours.org/career-planning/process/
- Free one-on-one advice: https://80000hours.org/speak-with-us/apply/?referred_by=Elliot%20Teperman&referrer_Id=1231593241
- Jobs Board: https://jobs.80000hours.org/High Impact Professionals
-Impact Accelerator Program: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/impact...
- Join the Talent Directory: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/find-a-job
- Professional and Workplace groups: https://www.highimpactprofessionals.org/groupsAnimal Advocacy Careers
- Online Advocacy Course: https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/course
- Jobs Board: https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/job-boardSuccessif
- Career Services Application: https://airtable.com/apppnsBL2JjaU.../paghWMfYs63ePKfOv/formProbably Good
- Core Career Advice Series: https://probablygood.org/career-advice/
- Personal Career Advising: https://probablygood.org/advising/
- Jobs Board: https://jobs.probablygood.org/Consultants for Impact
- Career Conversations: https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/career-conversations
- Career Check-In Template: https://docs.google.com/.../1EP7gsZcCIFxV107mdhPB.../edit...
- Network Directory: https://www.consultantsforimpact.org/network-directoryA really good post on EA careers
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/.../advice-for-early...
Thanks for writing Oscar
I split 20% of my salary (roughly) equally between Giving What We Can, Family Empowerment Media, and the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund.
I have some hesitations about supporting Richard Hanania given what I understand of his views and history. But in the same way I would say I support *example economic policy* of *example politician I don’t like* if I believed it was genuinely good policy, I think I should also say that I found this article of Richard’s quite warming.
This feels self-flagellating, and after reading your family planning vs animal welfare piece, in which you spent 26% of the word count explaining why your analysis was bad despite pretty much all of the comments being positive, and which I think was really valuable, I am a little worried you might be underselling yourself.
As Charlie’s said, it is a little tricky for an outsider to know what you’re capable of without more information. I don’t want to be unrealistic and suggest that you’ll be able to do whatever you set your mind to, but I would note that aptitude is not fixed.
If it would help to have some back and forth with someone, feel free to reach out.
I read somewhere that around 2% of EA donations are allocated towards animal welfare. I don’t know what an ideal world’s split would be, but it would have AW funding at a lot higher than 2%.
Strongly upvoting so others see it. This is similar in fashion to some work that Greg Sadler has done with Good Ancestors Policy in Australia (which has had a surprising amount of success). I also know Ben from some time when we were both in Canberra and am comfortable in vouching for his character.
I understand this is a joke, but I think it’s in poor taste.
On 2. Have you reached out to AIM? Given their recent work in incubating new effective giving organisations they might be well equipped to support you.
Best of luck with this!
tldr, thanks for writing.
I would consider myself to be a very trusting and forgiving person who always starts with the mentality of “Yes, but most people are inherently good”. I definitely went through a long period of “Ah well I mean surely Sam (SBF) isn’t actually a ‘bad’ guy right”. This felt like a productive slap in the face.
I would still prefer to be more than less trusting, but maybe I should dial it back a bit. Thanks.
Nice stuff, Adam!