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This post is co-authored with Ben Garfinkel. It is cross-posted from the CEA blog. A PDF version can be found here.
Summary: Some strategic decisions available to the effective altruism m...
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TL;DR: I'm releasing a website that ranks philanthropists according to EA principles and research, and allows users to re-rank the list using their own assumptions. I'd like feedback and help making it better. I'd especially like ideas for how to make the results more trustworthy. Funding may be available.
Crossposted to LessWrong.
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Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted. Disagreement very welcome.
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Coefficient Giving (cG) announced a $1 billion gift to GiveWell on 23rd July. This increases a previous commitment of $175m for 2026. cG say this could be a one-off surge, but it has implications for other donors either way. Both organisations...
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Is anyone aware of any meta analyses of projects/grants that go into detail on the nature of the work (eg research/lobbying/something else)?
I want to better understand the skills/backgrounds of the folks working on these things + what the work actually looks like. In particular I want to get a better sense of where a person with a particular skillset/background who isn’t currently doing direct work is most likely to be effective/successful.
Maybe take a look at this! https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/job-profile