Tyler Kolota

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US Foreign Aid Bridge Fund

Tyler Kolota14 Feb 2025 3:14 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(www.foreignaidbridgefund.org)

Tyler Kolota 6 Feb 2025 16:52 UTC
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in reply to: Tyler Kolota’s comment on: The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children
Checking back in. Contractors have started some discussions on what specific activities can resume, but with all USAID staff put on admin leave & recalled it is very uncertain what is actually happening with PEPFAR. Right now the waivers make for some PR for Rubio, but aid is still functionally blocked.
Also…
“Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.”

Tyler Kolota 2 Feb 2025 17:39 UTC
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on: Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farming
I think solutions that solve all of climate change may be more tractable than wide-reaching solutions for factory farming / animal suffering.

Climate change resolutions that cost $1 trillion a year or less & don’t require widespread political change…
-SO2 Injection
-Olivine Rock Weathering
-Continued Steep Cost Declines in Renewables & Batteries
-Abundant Carbon Neutral Synthetic Gas
How to Solve Climate Change https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/we-can-already-stop-climate-change
Current SO2 Credits https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection
Donate
https://makesunsets.com/products/join-the-next-balloon-launch-and-cool-the-planet
Olivine Rock Weathering https://worksinprogress.co/issue/olivine-weathering/
Steep Renewables & Batteries Cost Declines https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/solar-and-batteries-for-generic-use-cases/
Abundant Carbon Neutral Synthetic Gas https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/how-terraform-navigated-the-idea-maze/

Tyler Kolota 29 Jan 2025 2:46 UTC
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on: The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children
New broader waiver to the freeze for life-saving assistance announced
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-issues-new-waiver-humanitarian-aid-amid-freeze-2025-01-29/

Tyler Kolota 29 Jan 2025 2:03 UTC
11 points
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on: The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children
I’m not sure “sharing articles on PEPFAR as widely as you can” won’t have some negative consequences.
I’ve been following the posts around this on Twitter/X & they routinely get disdain & hate from MAGA users. Like if one put up a link to contact Congress, I wouldn’t put it past some people to contact Congress to say the program is wasteful, doesn’t prioritize US citizens, only helps irresponsible gay people, etc. The ignorance & selfish cruelty on display has been very disheartening. It has shaken my faith in humanity, not even a faith in people being really empathetic & good, but the faith that people won’t hatefully oppose something so good because of a warped world-view.
The support on places like Bluesky has been much better.

Tyler Kolota 23 Jan 2025 3:56 UTC
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in reply to: ludwigbald’s comment on: Center for Effective Aid Policy has shut down
If you publicize how the government aid org is wasting money, the entire budget may more likely get cut, not redirected to more effective aid.
May be better to highlight what the effective aid could do.

Tyler Kolota 6 Jan 2025 7:17 UTC
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on: The Humane League Needs Your Money More Than Alt Proteins, Probably
I hope Every Egg starts selling their animal free eggs in stores soon.

Tyler Kolota 28 Dec 2024 1:59 UTC
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on: Cause area: Short-sleeper genes
Maybe the most tractable new idea to improve lives by 5% or more at scale!

I recently came across this short-sleepers intervention idea on Twitter. https://x.com/byersblake/status/1865853596769849671?s=46

And when I started listing out big project ideas like economic/political systems change, reducing diseases/aging/major causes of death, resolving climate change, working on advanced market commitments, etc., I couldn’t think of anything that was as tractable that would significantly improve lives at scale. There are ways to improve democratic decision making & alignment with people’s values & priorities in big ways, but implementing the mechanisms is a big political challenge if not a non-starter. Attacking major causes of death is feasible if we find scalable solutions for aging, obesity, & addictions. We could likely increase lifespans/healthspans by 5% or more, but at this point we may get a decent amount of this when existing markets scale GLP1 drugs.

It seems like a short-sleepers intervention, even if it only reduced required sleeping hours from 8 to 6, would be equivalent to giving most people 6 more years of conscious life or a 7.5% longer healthy life if it could be done in an affordable drug/therapy. And it seems most challenges for an intervention would be narrow technical challenges & known regulatory challenges instead of unwieldy, widespread political/societal challenges.

I really like the potential here. I’ll keep reading more on it & look forward to any updates or opportunities to support it.

Tyler Kolota 27 Dec 2024 0:17 UTC
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on: Donation Celebration Post
I’m still using donation multipliers to increase the amount of funds given/directed to orgs: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BFbNymbn4ukmKWHrX/donation-multiplier-stacking-directing-1-27x-to-6-6x-more

So I’m lined up to give $950 to the Evidence Action donation match campaign https://supporters.evidenceaction.org/page/2024match?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=giving_season

And I’m doing it on a new credit card with a $200 cash back bonus.

Then my remaining holiday donation of $550 will be split between the GiveWell All Grants Fund & the Giving Multiplier matching fund (https://givingmultiplier.org/matching) But I’m holding off until January to make this one on the off chance tax deductions will be more viable next year.

NestFresh expects to sell US eggs free of chick-culling by August 2025

Tyler Kolota26 Dec 2024 5:15 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.wdsu.com)

Tyler Kolota 23 Jul 2024 18:47 UTC
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on: AMA: Beast Philanthropy’s Darren Margolias
When & where can I watch the video?

Tyler Kolota 11 Jul 2024 4:29 UTC
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on: AMA: Beast Philanthropy’s Darren Margolias
Many of the most cost-effective & scale-able interventions are preventative, like child immunizations in globally poor areas. Unfortunately preventative work usually isn’t as flashy, like there isn’t a lot of fan-fare or striking event when in 6 months a vaccinated child doesn’t get malaria.

In what ways might the Mr. Beast team or others creatively work through/around this challenge to make highly-effective preventative work more compelling?

Tyler Kolota 11 Jul 2024 4:07 UTC
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on: AMA: Beast Philanthropy’s Darren Margolias
Would you consider more work & content in nutrition for pregnant mothers & developing children in globally poor regions?

-Multi-micronutrient & calcium supplementation & education for pregnant mothers to prevent still-births/early-births/underweight-births.

-Complementary feeding supplies & education for families with infants to prevent stunting.

-SQ-LNS (https://www.unicef.org/documents/nutrition/SQLNS-Guidance) distribution to prevent malnutrition in early childhood.

Research presented in the “Best Things First” book (https://lomborg.com/best-things-first) estimate a benefit of $14-$24 for every $1 spent on these interventions in globally poor regions.

Tyler Kolota 27 Jun 2024 3:58 UTC
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in reply to: CB🔸’s comment on: Economic Growth—Donation suggestions and ideas
Some people in this comment thread are repeatedly making the mistake of talking about the increase in satisfaction due to increased wealth of already-wealthy/developed-country-people. Increases in satisfaction related to increases in income only start to plateau around the $80k per year mark. https://images.app.goo.gl/7jDJFqbj3Eq1ePeY7

The per capita global income is around $10,000. Most people in the world would be significantly more satisfied with 2x, or even 7x, their current income.

Tyler Kolota 18 Oct 2022 17:59 UTC
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on: Changes to EA Giving Tuesday for 2022
I tried reaching out to contact@eagivingtuesday.org with the following, but never got a response…

“Hello EA Giving Tuesday Team,

I’ve been reading through the site & getting a better idea of how you work this each year. Based on past efforts it looks like the matching isn’t just limited to the FB listed organizations in the usual Fundraiser search section, which is good news.

But for the upcoming Giving Tuesday 2022, I really want to know if you can include Giving Multiplier as an organization donation option? It is an EA organization, but it wasn’t listed in the 2021 orgs. Site: https://givingmultiplier.org/ FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/GivingMultiplier/

I want to try to maximize my donation this year by donating through FB matching on Giving Tuesday, by using new credit cards with high intro cash-back bonuses, by checking if my company can also match my donation, and by donating to Giving Multiplier for a higher potential multiplier from additional new EA donors.

Is Giving Multiplier an organization you can include in this year’s lineup?”

There should be a way to set this up to 3-4.5x most donations. (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BFbNymbn4ukmKWHrX/donation-multiplier-stacking-directing-1-2x-to-9-9x-more)

Tyler Kolota 18 Oct 2022 16:27 UTC
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on: EA Giving Tuesday
Hello, I reached out to contact@eagivingtuesday.org with a question about this year’s efforts. But I did not get any response. Can I please get in contact with someone from the team?

Tyler Kolota 20 May 2022 17:39 UTC
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on: Growth and the case against randomista development
Besides the interventions mentioned for increasing free trade, immigration, or charter cities, I wonder if there is any capacity for additional less political interventions.

With new tools like the Atlas of Economic Complexity (https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/), might there be some effective ways to support entrepreneurs moving up the value-add & product complexity scale to products related to the existing products & skill-sets in a country? Explainers…

https://youtu.be/2FeugaLv5Bo

https://youtu.be/5jjKDH6ijrQ

https://youtu.be/KQAarHByMTM

Or

Is there more capacity for poverty alleviation measures that can be somewhat measured by potential increases in income from products? Like JPAL or Paul Polak interventions of developing domestic production of new income generating or income saving products (treadle pumps, low-cost drip irrigation, electro-chlorination vendors, etc)? https://youtu.be/H_F8xpat4sc

Tyler Kolota 20 May 2022 17:27 UTC
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in reply to: Hauke Hillebrandt’s comment on: Growth and the case against randomista development
A close thing I’ve seen to the “growth diagnostics” you describe is the country strategies & likely growth products sections of the Atlas of Economic Complexity (https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/).

Explainers… https://youtu.be/2FeugaLv5Bo

https://youtu.be/5jjKDH6ijrQ

https://youtu.be/KQAarHByMTM

Tyler Kolota 18 May 2022 21:50 UTC
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on: Donation Multiplier Stacking: Directing 1.2x to 6.6x More Funds
Some points for why Giving Multiplier could still be pretty good even if more funds are directed to slightly less effective GiveWell charities than things like bed-nets:
1. As EA starts to move a lot more money each year and potentially gets more push-back for concentrating its power in the non-profit space, Giving Multiplier offers a step in the funding process that allows more non-EAs to voice where they want more of these concentrated funds directed. It gives even outsiders a bit of a democratic voice in our processes.
2. If these outsider voices seem to tip things towards non-optimal allocations, then GiveWell’s maximum impact fund could still adjust its allocation of funds to the better marginal options. So the more democratic Giving Multiplier funds can just displace other funding sources for lower impact GiveWell charities & those displaced sources can then give to the higher impact GiveWell charities in response.

Tyler Kolota 18 May 2022 17:03 UTC
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on: Issues with Giving Multiplier
Some good counterpoints here for why Giving Multiplier could still be pretty good even after these criticisms:
1. As EA starts to move a lot more money each year and potentially gets more push-back for concentrating its power in the non-profit space, Giving Multiplier offers a step in the funding process that allows more non-EAs to voice where they want more of these concentrated funds directed. It gives even outsiders a bit of a democratic voice in our processes.
2. If these outsider voices seem to tip things towards non-optimal allocations, then GiveWell’s maximum impact fund could still adjust its allocation of funds to the better marginal options. So the more democratic Giving Multiplier funds can just displace other funding sources for lower impact GiveWell charities & those displaced sources can then give to the higher impact GiveWell charities.

Tyler Kolota

US For­eign Aid Bridge Fund

NestFresh ex­pects to sell US eggs free of chick-cul­ling by Au­gust 2025

US Foreign Aid Bridge Fund

NestFresh expects to sell US eggs free of chick-culling by August 2025