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...
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.
I recently built Impact List (impactlist.xyz), a site which ranks people by their positive impact via donations.
The goal is t...
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....
This is great. Are there any more talks on career choice that you could add?
80,000 Hours have only a few videos on their YouTube channel that're more than ten minutes long.
Is there anything you had in mind? I don't know of any other talks that are relevant and whose permissions would be easy to secure.
P.S. I just realized that the audio quality of Toby Ord's talk is very bad.
P.P.S. If anyone would like to take over this project, let me know.
If you'd like I can give a go at cleaning up the audio of Ord's talk.
And by give a go I mean, run it through a few filters to see if it can go from "very bad" to "passable".
Sure, that would be very helpful. Boris did that for a couple of other files. I'll upload any cleaned-up audio sent my way. New audio is also welcome!
E-mail is probably the best way to get in touch: [email protected]
And sorry for the delayed reply! I didn't see your comment.