Cross-posted from my Substack.
Epistemic status: I’ve puzzled over this for a long time but I’m not sure I came to the right answers. I'm sharing this partly because it might help others work on resource allocation, but mostly because some smarter reader might tell me how to do it better.
TL;DR:
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With the AI windfall, mental health may be taken increasingly seriously by mainstream EA. There’s increasingly room to explore the cause area and answer some of the biggest uncertainties; at the same time, costs of the most effective interventions are continuing to fall. StrongMinds is now treating for ~$35, about a third of GiveWell’s best guess from a few years ago, and is expected to...
If there's so much EA-ish money coming, how does one "put out buckets" to collect it?
I am very concerned about relative cause prioritization among the alleged wave of philanthropy. (Personally, I expect it to me smaller than many do.) How does one shape this? For example, I really want efforts of the shape "raise the salience of AI pause as a political issue among the US public, particularly the religious mainstream." How do I influence the amount of funding that goes to that, if there's a big anticipated wave?
Write convincingly about it then get it featured prominently somewhere the donors, or people they trust, already read.
Such as, for example, the Effective Altruism Forum :)