Toby Tremlett🔹

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 15:18 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  Voting has now closed! Thank you to everyone who voted, discussed and donated. And of course to all the organisations who wrote marginal funding posts!

  Stay tuned for a post about the winners tomorrow.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 10:50 UTC

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  The Donation Election will close (no more voting or donating) at an undisclosed time today… could be in ten minutes, could be in ten hours… get your final votes in soon just in case!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 10:23 UTC

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  in reply to: Prin_Pa’s comment on: En­hanc­ing the Im­pact of Le­mon­ade’s Give­back Pro­gram: An Open Letter

  This is fantastic, thanks so much for doing this! My only recommendation is to double down on your point of asking them to use charity evaluators (specifically GiveWell, maybe ACE and Giving Green), to decide which charities to include for each category (that way they feel bought into their choice of charity, and ideally they can change when recommendations do).
  Let me know if I can help in any way!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 10:15 UTC

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

  For @LotteG : “frog with tarot cards”
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 3 Dec 2024 9:32 UTC

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  in reply to: PabloAMC 🔸’s comment on: Au­dio AMA: Allan Sal­danha, earn­ing to give since 2014.

  It’ll be on the EA Forum curated and popular podcast feed, but I’ll post a transcript and links on the Forum as well.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 2 Dec 2024 14:27 UTC

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

  For @Emma Richter🔸 : Thanks for donating!
  

  

Au­dio AMA: Allan Sal­danha, earn­ing to give since 2014.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 15:44 UTC

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  in reply to: James Herbert’s comment on: Can I put EA on my re­sume?

  I’d also add that basically no one knows what EA is, and currently, when you do a quick google, you get a good impression (criticism tab aside):
  

  

  (Interested to know if others get the same AI summary- not sure if it regenerates for each user, or just for search terms)

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 15:33 UTC

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  in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Dis­cus­sion Thread

  Thanks Jason! I’m guessing a fairly large part of this is name recognition, so maybe there aren’t unwritten takes to extract here.
  
  This also makes me think we can make the UI clearer next year- it’d have been easier to see this effect if I could also click a button to “eliminate one candidate”.
  
  We did have some more fancy schemes where chunks of votes would be visually redistributed, but it would have taken too long.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 14:00 UTC

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

  Poor @David Solar—your dog isn’t this creepy in real life:
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 13:46 UTC

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

  A cat I saw recently, for @Joseph_Chu. Thanks for donating!
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 11:00 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: Thomas Kwa’s Shortform

  Specifically this.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 10:55 UTC

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  in reply to: Thomas Kwa’s comment on: Thomas Kwa’s Shortform

  Have you seen farmkind? Seems like they are trying to provide a donation product for precisely this problem.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 9:36 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Dis­cus­sion Thread

  This isn’t an institutional take from CEA, but I’m personally a bit surprised that the Arthropoda Foundation isn’t up there, since the Shrimp Welfare Project is. They seem to appeal to the same worldview to me. If you put SWP near the top of your list, but didn’t vote for Arthropoda, why is that?

• Toby Tremlett🔹 29 Nov 2024 9:35 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Dis­cus­sion Thread

  The current leaders, going into the final stretch… are the EA Animal Welfare Fund, The Shrimp Welfare Project, and Rethink Priorities.
  
  The Against Malaria Foundation, Pause AI US, Wild Animal Initiative and MATS are runners up, with AMF being particularly close to getting into the top three.

  You can expand the leaderboard at any time to see the runners up.
  
  Now is the time to make the case for the runners up you think should be more highly ranked…
  

  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 28 Nov 2024 17:33 UTC

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  We’ve decided to add another $5000 match for the last stretch of the Donation Election (you can see how much of it is left on the banner). This is in addition to the first $5000, which we already matched. I know that the word shouldn’t be used loosely, but this match seems genuinely counter-factual to me- based on the pace of donations so far, I put low odds (20%) on the full match amount being reached. That is, unless potential donors suddenly see the value of Bulbys exploding from Forum buttons.
  
  The Marginal Funding posts were really valuable this year, and it’s been great to have so many candidates, and see so much effort going into them. We had some money left in our 2024 events budget, and we wanted to make sure that the event is worthwhile to our candidates, and that they are excited to take part next year.
  
  Thanks to those who have donated, voted, and commented so far!
  
  The Donation Election will end, at a specific yet undisclosed time, on December 3rd.
  

• Toby Tremlett🔹 28 Nov 2024 14:58 UTC

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  in reply to: Jason’s comment on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Dis­cus­sion Thread

  Have you tried expanding the list to add candidates? We added that feature for this purpose, but it is interesting to know if it isn’t fulfilling that.

• Toby Tremlett🔹 28 Nov 2024 14:07 UTC

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  on: to­bytrem’s Quick takes

  I’m firming up some plans for pledge highlight week (December 16-22) at the moment. These include (multiple) AMAs, but also posts I’d love to see people write.

  If you want to help make this week more lively, consider whether you or a friend might like to write about:

  • Your experience with pledging/​ not pledging

  • Arguments for or against taking the giving what we can pledge

  • Ideas for making pledging more of a norm (especially in the world, but also in the EA community)

  • Or really anything else with “pledge” in the title, with vibes anywhere from celebratory to (constructively) critical.

  Feel free to dm me if you are thinking about posting during the week, and would like feedback, or have questions. Cheers!

• Toby Tremlett🔹 28 Nov 2024 12:12 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Dis­cus­sion Thread

  How do you feel about the current leaderboard? Would you like to see anything change? What’s the best argument for a radically different leaderboard (given the current list of candidates)?

• Toby Tremlett🔹 27 Nov 2024 13:15 UTC

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  on: Dona­tion Elec­tion Dis­cus­sion Thread

  Has anyone changed their minds because of the results/​ for any other reason during this election so far?
  
  PS- I’m open to replies along the lines of “no I haven’t changed my mind, and this sort of thing wouldn’t because...”