Toby Tremlett🔹

• Toby Tremlett🔹 4 Dec 2025 10:34 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Dis­cus­sion Thread

  The donation election ‘I voted’ flair (pictured below) was broken until last night. If you vote again it should be added to your account!
  
  (This is also a reminder that you can change your vote as many times as you like, and the deadline is Sunday)
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2025 11:00 UTC

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  on: 3 Stages of Com­pe­ti­tion for the Long-Term Future

  Love this as a lock-in diagram.

  

  Years ago when I was working with Richard Fisher on The Long View, we were trying to come up with a good extended metaphor for lock-in. I was pretty stuck on the idea of a tilt-maze (which is intuitive but unfortunately the term means little to people reading).
  

  

  The problem with the tilt maze is that it is binary—you are either totally free to move the ball wherever, or you are trapped in a hole. Your diagram works much better—it intuitively gives you the idea of more and less sticky troughs. You could also represent a more binary lock in with a deeper valley.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Dec 2025 16:41 UTC

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

  See:
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Dec 2025 16:41 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  A springtail for @JoA🔸 (springtails are actually very cute)

  

Poll: Wild an­i­mal vs Farm An­i­mal welfare

• Toby Tremlett🔹 1 Dec 2025 8:37 UTC

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  in reply to: Ben_West🔸’s comment on: Giv­ing Sea­son 2025 Announcement

  On the frontpage banner :)

• Toby Tremlett🔹 1 Dec 2025 8:36 UTC

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  in reply to: Ryan Kidd’s comment on: Meet the Can­di­dates: Dona­tion Elec­tion 2025

  Changed—that’s another $10

• Toby Tremlett🔹 28 Nov 2025 16:46 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  @Siljamaeki ’s cool goat!

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 28 Nov 2025 15:06 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  A rabbit for @MHR🔸 !

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 27 Nov 2025 8:39 UTC

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  in reply to: Mo Putera’s comment on: Mo Putera’s Quick takes

  +1! I’d add that we care about being right as a group, not being right as each individual. I don’t think the most efficient distribution of resources looks like each individual spending years on their own cause prioritisation, making drastic career switches every year or so etc…

• Toby Tremlett🔹 27 Nov 2025 8:35 UTC

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  in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion 2025: How to Vote

  I think I’ve fixed them all, thanks for the flag Jason!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 27 Nov 2025 8:14 UTC

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  in reply to: Kestrel🔸’s comment on: Kaleem’s Shortform

  Thanks Kestrel, I’ll let the devs know.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 26 Nov 2025 11:26 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  An ant for @Vasco Grilo🔸
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 26 Nov 2025 10:49 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  A black soldier fly for @Ula Zarosa
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 25 Nov 2025 15:18 UTC

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  During the Donation Election (i.e. right now) is a great time to work through our cruxes around cause prioritisation, and tactics within causes. If you want to help cause more discussion on the Forum, consider writing a poll post, highlighting some key crux (like policy change vs research work in AI Safety, or funding farmed vs wild animal welfare). You don’t need to include much background info besides the poll, but linking out to a few readings on each side of the debate is always a bonus.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 25 Nov 2025 13:02 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  Dog for @Jason
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 25 Nov 2025 11:49 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  Inspired by Pika Works.

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 25 Nov 2025 8:54 UTC

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  in reply to: Kaleem’s comment on: Kaleem’s Shortform

  Thanks Kaleem! The right people at CEA will see basically any quick take lol (I read them all).
  I love it too—it’s all down to @Agnes Stenlund 🔸 !

• Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Nov 2025 19:53 UTC

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  in reply to: Ulf Graf 🔹’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Fund: Re­wards and Matching

  Thanks so much Ulf! What a horrible fantastic image

• Toby Tremlett🔹 24 Nov 2025 13:28 UTC

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  I wasn’t as clear as I’d like to have been about deadlines for admission to the donation election, so I’ll make things clearer here:

  • If an org posted during marginal funding week (which ended on November 23rd), and had not signalled that they’d like to be included in the donation election—I’ll message them before including them as candidates. You’ll see a couple of these orgs added over the next couple of days.

  • If an org communicated with me and planned to post for marginal funding week, but was unable to post in time, I’ll allow a couple days of grace (more participants is better!)

  • However, if an organisation has neither communicated with me, nor posted during marginal funding week it is now too late for them to apply to join the donation election.

  What links here?

  • Meet the Can­di­dates: Dona­tion Elec­tion 2025 by Toby Tremlett🔹 (24 Nov 2025 9:51 UTC; 91 points)