Overall we are way more talent constrained rather than funding constrained. The UK xrisk ecosystem has managed to get something like $10m from non-EA sources, and now recruitment is our biggest bottleneck. As mentioned below, we do hire people without PhDs to our 'postdoc' positions.
We do hire people without PhDs—appropriate edits done :)
Good point, this certainly wouldn't work for lobbying. But over 50% of donations still come from wealthy individuals or small donations, so it's a substantial absolute amount of money that still could benefit from moral trade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States
I envision this targeting the general public.
I suppose I have a higher credence in a wide audience finding this really appealing. By spending X dollars, you're canceling out X dollars of the other side while simultaneously sending 2*X dollars to an actual charity.
Nobody likes the negative ads in the US - plenty of people donate in order to 'prevent the other side from winning' more than supporting their own candidate.
I suppose I will forever be denied this rite of passage, as I totally took it from Toby's paper about year ago :)
"the measure Pomodoro-maximization might accidentally become the target, even though the intended target is goal completion."
Nonsense.