Toby Tremlett🔹

• Toby Tremlett🔹 15 Nov 2024 14:17 UTC

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  in reply to: harfe’s comment on: Propos­ing the Con­di­tional AI Safety Treaty (linkpost TIME)

  To be fair, this is a linkpost, and the norm is often to use the heading from the piece wherever else it is published. Time magazine’s norms are probably a bit more click-bait pro. I’ll dm Otto though with some more Forum friendly titles.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 14 Nov 2024 13:23 UTC

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  in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion: How to vote

  Fair enough!

  I publicly declare that the people with knowledge of the deadline will not vote after the evening of December 2.

  
  I’ll also make sure that we pre-commit internally to a deadline, so that we can’t game the results by choosing the cut off.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 14 Nov 2024 12:30 UTC

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  in reply to: Lorenzo Buonanno🔸’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion: How to vote

  My first guess is that if this did happen, we’d keep the votes open slightly longer until there wasn’t a tie—this is another benefit of having a secret deadline. I’ll check with @Will Howard🔹 when he’s online to see if there is already a solution to this. Thanks for pointing it out!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 14 Nov 2024 12:06 UTC

  4 points

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  in reply to: Jeff Kaufman 🔸’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion: How to vote

  Thanks Jeff!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 14 Nov 2024 12:05 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund An­nounce­ment: Match­ing, Re­wards and FAQ.

  A polite pangolin for @Jordan Pieters 🔸 - Thanks for donating!
  

  

Dona­tion Elec­tion: How to vote

• Toby Tremlett🔹 13 Nov 2024 16:28 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund An­nounce­ment: Match­ing, Re­wards and FAQ.

  Thanks for donating @NickLaing!

  

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Novem­ber 2024

• Toby Tremlett🔹 13 Nov 2024 9:23 UTC

  4 points

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  on: Every­one De­serves to Flour­ish in Life: Vida Plena Helps Peo­ple Do Just That

  Just a quick comment—I think this is a really creative idea for an infographic- love it. Especially when supplemented with the graph with more info that you included.

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 12 Nov 2024 12:18 UTC

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  in reply to: Ben Stevenson’s comment on: Ben Steven­son’s Quick takes

  I’d love to know the answer to this question, but I haven’t tracked it (I’m hoping we will get some information from a) the donation election—where people can comment on their vote and b) next year’s EA survey).

• Toby Tremlett🔹 12 Nov 2024 10:42 UTC

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  in reply to: Claire McGuinness’s comment on: How would your pro­ject use ex­tra fund­ing? (Marginal Fund­ing Week 2024)

  Thanks for the response Claire! I’m not sure I quite understand why cash transfers would be 1:1 (if you are given $100 and use it to buy a goat to sell the milk, you get more than $100 of value), but I’ll check out the link to find out more.
  BTW- the link doesn’t work for me, is it broken for you as well?

• Toby Tremlett🔹 11 Nov 2024 15:28 UTC

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  in reply to: Claire McGuinness’s comment on: How would your pro­ject use ex­tra fund­ing? (Marginal Fund­ing Week 2024)

  Thanks for sharing Claire!
  No worries if not, but do you know how you compare to GiveDirectly as a benchmark in the areas where you work?

[Question] How would your pro­ject use ex­tra fund­ing? (Marginal Fund­ing Week 2024)

• Toby Tremlett🔹 8 Nov 2024 15:47 UTC

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  on: In­tro­duc­ing four brand-new char­i­ties! Here’s the fall co­hort of the Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship In­cu­ba­tion Pro­gram.

  Congrats! I know these charities are likely to be extremely busy at the moment, but if they have time to spare, I’d encourage them to:
  1- Write a comment (on the marginal funding thread which will be up from Monday) or a post for Marginal Funding Week next week (even a late submission is valuable).
  2- Message me about taking part in the Donation Election (if they are registered charities already).

• Toby Tremlett🔹 8 Nov 2024 11:02 UTC

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  Why should you donate to the Forum’s Donation Election Fund?

  • It could change the way you donate, for the better: We all have limited information to decide how we should donate. Giving via the Donation Election Fund let’s you benefit from the collectively held information of the Forum’s users, as well as up to date facts from the marginal funding posts from organisations. If enough users take part in the voting, you won’t have to read all of the marginal funding posts to benefit from the information they contain.

  • It could boost engagement in the election, which leads to:

    • More funding for charities: Last year, the donation election and surrounding events moved a lot of money. In our squiggle model, we get this distribution:

      

    • The headline “$30k raised through the election” does not represent all of the money raised because of the Forum’s events. But giving money to the election fund will likely increase the attention on the Forum, the amount of effort that organisations and individuals put into posts etc… in a way which will increase the amount raised overall.

    • Influencing other’s donations for the better: In the EA survey (post coming soon) we saw that the donation election had influenced people’s donation choices. We also saw in the comments on last years votes that specific posts had influenced donations, especially, shifting people towards animal welfare organisations, and increasing donations to rethink priorities.

  Also, maybe you just want to get these sweet sweet rewards.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 7 Nov 2024 17:36 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund An­nounce­ment: Match­ing, Re­wards and FAQ.

  The first bad animal drawing, an Aardvark trying to Park (its bike). For anonymous. Thanks for donating!
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 7 Nov 2024 16:01 UTC

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  on: AMA: Rick Hol­land, Fundrais­ing ex­pert and Direc­tor of Con­fi­dent Philanthropy

  Hey Rick! Thanks again for taking part. If you have any takes on the consider asking Rick about bullets (included below) that aren’t covered in other questions, I’d love to hear them.
  
  Consider asking Rick about:

  • Trade-offs between relying on major funders versus appealing to small donors

  • How to discover what motivates funders

  • Common fundraising mistakes made by EA organisations

  • Tapping into the knowledge and expertise of your funders

  • How you might work with existing funders to find new funders

  • The most underrated Beatles song.
    

Has your or­gani­sa­tion lost fund­ing due to the Good Ven­tures fund­ing shift? Have you man­aged to re­place it?

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Nov 2024 13:48 UTC

  9 points

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  in reply to: NickLaing’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund An­nounce­ment: Match­ing, Re­wards and FAQ.

  I’m concerned that it will be hard to draw this one without implying that the mosquito nets are being used for fishing… stay tuned.

Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund An­nounce­ment: Match­ing, Re­wards and FAQ.