david_reinstein
Bio
I am a Senior Economist at Rethink Priorities (https://www.rethinkpriorities.org/our-team), previously an Economics lecturer/professor for 15 years
I'm working to impact EA fundraising and marketing; see https://bit.ly/eamtt
And projects bridging EA, academia, and open science (esp. the 'Unjournal') ... see bit.ly/eaprojects
My previous and ongoing research focuses on determinants and motivators of charitable giving (propensity, amounts, and 'to which cause?'), and drivers of/barriers to effective giving, as well as the impact of pro-social behavior and social preferences on market contexts.
Podcasts: "Found in the Struce" https://anchor.fm/david-reinstein
and the EA Forum podcast: https://anchor.fm/ea-forum-podcast (co-founder, regular reader)
Twitter: @givingtools
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Here's what it looked like (I cut out the information about the fundraiser I donated to):
Is there potential for an LLM/AI tool that turns the content of the discord server chats into a structured knowledge base?
Are the matches just starting to be announced now? I just got messaged that one had been matched
Checking in again :)
Pinging this thread to see if any action or decisions have been taken. My latest impression seems to be that the Bay Area (while being a wonderful place) seems to be just as expensive/unaffordable as a year ago, while remaining the biggest EA center. My impression is that this is limiting the talent pool and ability to coordinate.
I gave comments on this directly to Wayne. I'd encourage others to comment (decently high VOI perhaps), and I'll share my comments later so as not to bias.
I suggest editing the original post to note the updated location?
Also, some issues with the new location, which is good but
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Some 'merging' of houses (when an individual like me put up 2 houses) seemed to have been done wrongly. E.g., info from my English house was merged into my American house, and the English house seems to have disappeared
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Obviously the map is a static image; I assume you plan to update with a link to a geocoded dynamic map thing?
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Maybe you should add/automate a 'country' field, as I did in my Airtable version
I suggest editing this post for the update?
I want to add a slightly pedantic note, but also slightly helpful to avoid future confusion:
'Purchasing power parity" is a condition on the exchange rate ... the exchange rate level that would set the purchasing power equal between two countries.
In this post, and in Toby Ord's footnote, I think we should just be referring to "purchasing power".
Project Idea: 'Cost to save a life' interactive calculator promotion
What about making and promoting a ‘how much does it cost to save a life’ quiz and calculator.
This could be adjustable/customizable (in my country, around the world, of an infant/child/adult, counting ‘value added life years’ etc.) … and trying to make it go viral (or at least bacterial) as in the ‘how rich am I’ calculator?
The case
While GiveWell has a page with a lot of tech details, but it’s not compelling or interactive in the way I suggest above, and I doubt they market it heavily.
GWWC probably doesn't have the design/engineering time for this (not to mention refining this for accuracy and communication). But if someone else (UX design, research support, IT) could do the legwork I think they might be very happy to host it.
It could also mesh well with academic-linked research so I may have some ‘Meta academic support ads’ funds that could work with this.
Tags/backlinks (~testing out this new feature)
@GiveWell @Giving What We Can
Projects I'd like to see
EA Projects I'd Like to See
Idea: Curated database of quick-win tangible, attributable projects