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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
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Evening. I'm expecting to donate 30k to charity this year. I enjoy the resource on TheLifeYouCanSave.org that calculates your impact in terms of outcomes--8 people saved if money given to the Against Malaria Foundation, etc--but I was wondering if there's a calculator that estimates in terms of Disability-Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs) in a similar way?
I'm not aware of a calculator that estimates DALYs based on charitable donations. However, there are calculators you can use to estimate the DALY impact of a disease on someone, so you could combine one of those with The Life You Can Save's calculator to get a DALY estimate.
This is the best-looking DALY calculator I could find. Unfortunately, I think you need to enter an "age of premature death" to use it. But if you enter a number like 130 for a non-lethal disease, the impact of the "premature death" basically zeroes out, and you can see info about disability weights and so on. It's kind of clumsy, but seems like a reasonable thing to try.