I’m Director of Special Projects at 80,000 Hours. My role changes quarter-to-quarter but currently I work in four areas (in decreasing order of the amount of time I spend on them):
On org-wide strategy
On special projects (like the longtermist survey)
On the job board
On parts of 80,000 Hours’ operations
Hey John, unfortunately a lot of the data we use to assess our impact contains people’s personal details or comes from others’ analyses that we’re not able to share. As such, it is hard for me to give a sense of how many times more cost-effective we think our marginal spending is compared with the community funding bar.
But the original post includes various details about assessments of our impact, including the plan changes we’ve tracked, placements made, the EA survey, and the Open Philanthropy survey. We will be working on our annual review in spring 2024 and may have more details to share about the impact of our programmes then.
If you are interested in reading about our perspective on our historical cost-effectiveness from our 2019 annual review, you can do so here.