I asked a ton of questions about effective altruism and SBF's giving, such as:
Why he created a new EA philanthropic org instead of just donating to Open Philanthropy.
How he deals with adverse selection in the projects he gets proposed?
What would be the scenario in which he feels Future Fund didn't live up to its potential?
When is it best to donate directly and when is it better to influence the government to make something happen?
Are EA causes multiplicative?
How does he hedge against the possibility that utilitarianism is wrong in his giving?
Should we think of his charitable giving as a yearly contribution of a billion dollars or as a 30 billion hedge against the possibility that there's going to be some existential risk that requires a large pool of liquid wealth?
I also asked a bunch of questions about crypto, FTX, leadership, hiring, and scaling.
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This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
Public Opinion...
I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
This post presents the executive summary from Giving What We Can’s impact evaluation for 2025. At the end of this post we share links to more information, including the full report and...
I enjoyed this. You got Sam to say that's a really good question several questions in a row!