AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
Disclaimer: Although I work on the Groups Team at CEA, I’m writing this in a personal capacity, and this post does not constitute an endorsement by CEA.
Agency - the realisation that you really can just do things.
TL;DR
Biosecurity needs people (of any background) who are agentic and have a high execution velocity and track record....
Journal subscription + donation hybrid model?
(new to EA) This might be a naive question but would it make sense to set up an organization that helps people choose and donate to a range of organizations? This would happen at large scale, for donors giving $100 to $1M. Value prop is transparency in the money spending (enforced by the org for non-profits to join) in the form of a (monthly/quarterly) technical analysis or report of how the money was spent (actual numerical breakdown, comparison against counterfactual uses of the money). Hypothesis is there are a lot of people who want to donate but only if they could see concrete benefit to society and be ensured money isn't wasted. And they want to input high effort into following the outcomes of the donation in the form of a technical report/numerical analysis. I realize something analogous exists for charities (e.g. your $100 helped X buy clothes and textbooks for Y months) but can this be extended to: your $100 helped advance research in Z in this concrete way. People already read the economist, MIT news, etc. is there a hybrid model where news is reported for the organizations/areas you're donating to? Hypothesis is news is more interesting to read if you have skin in the game.