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NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing intimate partner violence through edutainment, in our case a serialised radio drama. Over the past two years we have produced and aired two seasons in Rwanda.
We are currently evaluating our second season through a randomized controlled trial with 2,400 couples in Rwanda in partnership wi...
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* The Long-Term Future Fund is closing down, and EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund with a new full-time team.
* The fund's primary focus is technical AI safety and AI governance (including post-AGI governance), as well as supporting fields such as field-building and forecasting. We'll also consider non-GCR implications of transformative AI such as flourishing futures and digital...
The current Long Term Future Fund (LTFF) fund managers and I have decided to step back from our work on the LTFF. Because we believe LTFF donors trusted the fund managers to ensure that the funds would be used in line with the purposes of their donation, we've decided the right move is to close the fund.
While LTFF is closing, note that EA Funds has launched a new fund...
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Given that wikis benefit so much from critical mass, is there a reason not to just include this content on Wikipedia? Or have you considered merging with the EA Wiki under a broader banner? EA and forecasting, alongside progress studies and the rationalists, can all be viewed as part of a new enlightenment type idea.
Nikos and I spoke about the possibility of having the Forecasting Wiki as part of the EA Wiki, but we concluded that the planned articles were just too specific for our wiki, and decided that it made more sense for the Forecasting Wiki to launch as a separate project. It would, however, be nice to explore ways to merge forecasting, rationalist and EA content in some sort of meta-wiki.
I agree with this, the success rate for wikis appears to be fairly low, at least in my anecdotal experience: who has read articles on the Cause Priorization wiki or the LessDead wiki or the LessWrong wiki? Even the EA forum wiki or the LessWrong tags are barely read or updated (perhaps a merge of the two would be helpful?).
Unfortunately, the wildest inclusionists have lost, so we can't just put everything onto Wikipedia, which would be the best option.
Good content gathers dust on those isolated wikis, sadly.
Unrelated, but one story for why the new enlightenment groups have been so successful is that they draw on people with really high (>3SD) interest in analytic reasoning, and traits like WEIRD and systematising have increased over time, so there are now way more >3SD people, among leaders and billionaires especially, enabling fast growth.