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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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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.
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Biosecurity needs people (of any background) who are agentic and have a high execution velocity and track record....
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One of the first places you might want to look is at the work of David Moss at Rethink Priorities and the EA Survey: https://www.rethinkpriorities.org/publications#easurvey
Thanks, I was unfamiliar with their estimates for the proportion of the community they estimate.
"We estimate there are around 2315 highly engaged EAs and 6500 (90% CI: 4700-10,000) active EAs in the community overall."
https://www.rethinkpriorities.org/blog/2020/6/26/ea-survey-2019-series-how-many-people-are-there-in-the-ea-community
That source also provides some other sources for estimates.