Depopulation is Bad

Though I don’t think it’s as big a deal as x-risk or factory farming. Main crux is probably the effect on factory farming, as is the case with many economic growth influencing interventions. 

This is cool, it would be great if you could play around with it before making an account - I expect you to lose a lot of potential users at the make account before trying stage.

Fwiw I think one of the main barriers to this work is having good engineers who want to work on this. If you are a great engineer, consider working at Amodo - they are hiring!

Seems plausible that EA Funds should explore offering matches to larger projects that it wants to fund to help increase the project’s funding diversity.

Matching campaigns get a bad rep in EA circles* but it’s totally reasonable for a donor to be concerned that if they put in lots of money into an area other people won’t donate, and matching campaigns preserve the incentive for others to donate, crowding in funding.

* I agree that campaigns claiming you’ll have twice the impact as your donation will be matched are misleading.

Thanks, this is a great response. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this.

I'm not sure it makes sense to isolate 2b and 3b here - 1a can also play a role in mitigating failure (and some combination of all three might be optimal).

I just isolated these because I thought that you were most interested in EA orgs improving on 2b/3b, but noted.

I'd be curious to see a specific fictional story of failure that you think is:
* realistic (e.g. you'd be willing to bet at unfavourable odds that something similar has happened in the last year)
* seems very bad (e.g. worth say 25%+ of the org's budget to fix)
* is handled well at more mature charities with better governance
* stems from things like 2b and 3b

I'm struggling to come up with examples that I find compelling, but I'm sure you've thought about this a lot more than I have.

Time differences to a few other locations.

AI company employees, consider visiting New Zealand. The time zone looks workable, and I'm sure you won't be distracted.

This is cool. Do you have a sense of the contractor rate range?

Why would I listen to you? You don't even have an English degree.