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
In addition to Carl’s comments on why the registery would be easier, it has the added benefit of people being able to control their own funds and thus being more willing to contribute to the ‘fund’.
“Do you really think people would just send money to 1st-world strangers (ii) on the promise that the recipient was training to earn to give?” They needn’t be strangers. This has already happened in the UK EA community amongst EAs who met through 80,000 Hours and supported each other financially in the early training and internship stages of their earning to give careers.