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Lessons learned from Tyve, an effective giving startup
Craig Drayton1y1
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Thanks for sharing this, I really enjoyed it.

I did some "customer" research around effective giving a year or so back and found some similar themes.

Engaged EAs already seem to have what they need. Most other people give small amounts to affirm/signal their values, with little regard for impact. It is indeed easy to think of things that "should exist" but people don't want!

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Clifford
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Thanks Craig - I'm glad to hear it. Like I said in the piece, I'm sure there are some opportunities and angles here but I think that's a decent summary.
Ask (Everyone) Anything — “EA 101”
Answer by Craig DraytonOct 09, 20221
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How do you apply isoelastic utility to real world consumption/income values? For, say, calculating "equivalent sacrifice" donation amounts for people with different incomes.

When I've tried to apply the formula, incomes as different as $10k and $80k both seem to equal "almost 2.0 utility", and I don't know what to do with this.

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Announcing EA Pulse, large monthly US surveys on EA
Craig Drayton2y1
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Sounds worthwhile. I'm curious why this is restricted to the US population?

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Jamie Elsey
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Hi Craig - the current restriction to the US population certainly doesn't represent that we're not ultimately interested in expanding further. The current funding covers the US, and we started here for several reasons: 1. Logistical reasons to do with access to samples that is not so feasible in a lot of countries 2. Lots of up-to-date and readily available info on the US population demographics that make analysis-related choices/possibilities to do with getting to a representative sample more feasible 3. Lots of existing organisations are particularly interested in US in relation to public opinion/how this might inform policy But other countries are of interest too for sure!
‘Force multipliers’ for EA research
Craig Drayton2y1
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Hi Patrick, thanks for your comment and message. Do you think there are parts of the "assessing and onboarding candidates" problem that are distinctive to EA organisations/efforts?

If the problems apply to hiring organisations generally, it's more likely that the need could be addressed by existing generic solutions with large markets (e.g. recruitment SaaS). If not, a niche solution could be promising.

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Patrick Liu
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Assessing and Onboarding candidates is a challenge for all organizations but it may be worse in EA as they may not be large enough to have HR departments and seem to have staff mainly to do the research but not people development and training.  A lot of this tends to be maturing the culture so while there are commercial solutions, they have to meet the culture.  I don't look at the problem as developing new software but rather adapting something existing and operates at the right scale to get the job done.
‘Force multipliers’ for EA research
Craig Drayton2y2
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Thanks for your comment Harrison. It looks like a really interesting problem you're working on. In my experience, summaries and visualisation can be really powerful for coordination and alignment (of humans, let alone AIs!)

I'll take a look at the links you've provided to learn more.

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