I think Abie Rohrig and the broader team have been crushing it with the launch of What We Owe The Future. So so much media coverage and there are even posters popping up in tube stations across London!
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In case it’s helpful, the first thing below the title on the job board says:
>Some of these roles directly address some of the world’s most pressing problems, while others may help you build the career capital you need to have a big impact later.I’d be interested in any ideas you had for communicating more clearly that a bunch of the roles are there for a mix of career capital and impact reasons. Giving our guess of the extent to which each role is being listed for career capital vs impact reasons isn’t feasible for various reasons unfortunately.
>it kind of worries me
Is that because you think the job board shouldn’t list career capital roles, because it wasn’t obvious that the roles were career capital-related, or something else?
I agree with this and I appreciate you writing this up. I’ve also been mentioning this idea to folks after Michelle Hutchinson first mentioned it to me.
I think linking to organisations’ AMAs on the EA Forum is a neat idea! Thanks for sharing. I’ve added it to our list of feature ideas we might build in the future.
Hey Yonatan,
Thanks for building this! I’m excited for people to play with the job board data and explore alternative ways of displaying it. It’s both helpful to job board users, and it also helps the job board team prioritise which features to build next.
(One very minor comment is that the !Org and Org fields are redundant, so you might want to just show !Orgs by default?)
Excited to see future iterations.
Neat! Do you want to make a graph using the inflation-adjusted data?
Nope.
Nice! So far we’ve had around 3000 responses.
Hey Rocky, it was mainly driven by my guesses of where longtermist orgs are hiring at the moment. I’ve been getting a bunch of requests to help hiring for roles based in DC, Boston and SF Bay Area, but not as many New York. I didn’t want to add too many options for brevity.
But there are of course plenty of longtermist organisations hiring in New York at the moment, e.g. these: https://80000hours.org/job-board/?location=new-york-ny
Naina (the Time journalist) and I were chatting about the aggregate funding data but couldn’t quickly find a source. I connected Naina and Tyler to work on this together. Tyler pulled together the data in part for the Time article.
I tried to do something like you’re suggesting with this longtermist census.
There a trade off in how public you make the results. The more public the information is, the less information people are willing to share. I wanted to ask questions getting at “how much do you want to change job right now” and so decided not to make the results fully public.
Do you have a dashboard of money reported as donated by GWWC members anywhere? Would be great to see the amounts per year and where it’s being donated to.
Wonderful post Rémi. Take all the time you need, and if you decide to get back involved then I imagine our paths will cross on the other side! 🤗
Thanks for the feedback. Epistemic institutions are one of the FTX Future Fund project categories that they use in this post. I appreciate that that is fairly obscure! Do you think it would be helpful to link to this post and the 80k problem areas page from that question?
Feel free to just submit the form a second time if your situation changes. If you want to retract or withdraw any of your answers, you can email census@80000hours.org
Thanks for the helpful pushback. I’ve changed the title to include “it’ll only take a few mins”.
I’ll think about this some more and may make a lightweight version of this tomorrow.
(Part of the reason for posting this census here before promoting more widely on mailing lists was to get this kind of feedback. So I appreciate it! )
Good point—I had forgotten that some people might have this preference. I’ve added this option.
Yep, kudos to Will for the huge effort he’s put into the launch as well. I understand that many of the key media pieces came as a result of relationships he’s developed over the years.