defun 🔸

I think the pledge hits a sweet spot. It's not legally binding, so it's not really a lifelong decision, but being a public commitment helps push people to stick to their altruistic values.

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/faq/is-a-giving-pledge-legally-binding

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defun 🔸4mo61

AI safety

Holden Karnofsky has joined Anthropic (LinkedIn profile). I haven't been able to find more information.

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defun 🔸5mo18

AI safety

Anthropic's Twitter account was hacked. It's "just" a social media account, but it raises some concerns.

Update: the post has just been deleted. They keep the updates on their status page: https://status.anthropic.com/

Earning to Give (EtG) Pledge Club

defun 🔸5mo6

Great initiative! 🙌🙌

I've been hoping for something like this to exist. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CK7pGbkzdojkFumX9/meta-charity-focused-on-earning-to-give

What do EtGers need?

I've been donating 20% of my income for a couple of years, and I'm planning to increase it to 30–40%. I'd love to meet like-minded people: ambitious EAs who are EtG.

Introducing four brand-new charities! Here's the fall cohort of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program.

defun 🔸6mo17

Rahi Impact ... we expect to launch in May 2025.

Have you considering launching asap (eg. next month)?

I could be wrong, but Rahi Impact seems quite similar to a tech startup, and one of the best pieces of advice for most startups is to launch as soon as possible.

Meta charity focused on earning to give?

defun 🔸7mo3

Thank you so much for the context 💛

My raw thoughts (apologies for the low quality):

I think the target audience should be high earners who are already donating >=10% of their income. (Getting people from 0% to 10% would not be in the scope of the charity. I think GWWC is already doing a great job)
The two main goals:
- Motivate people to increase their donations (from 10% to 20% is probably much easier than from 0% to 10%)
- Help people significantly increase their earnings through networking, coaching, financial advice, tax optimization, etc.
One of the most valuable things for the charity to do would be to help with networking
This could be a very small charity (1 or 2 people)

GWWC is looking into this a bit

Nice! Makes a lot of sense!

Personal anecdote:

I was donating 10% until I met a highly ambitious EA who made me realize I could be doing much more.
I'm looking for a job right now. I'm sure there are multiple software engineer EAs who would be happy to help me (eg. with interview advice), but there's no easy way to connect.
I would like to help early-career SWEs, but only if they are ambitious about EA and aim to donate >10% of their income. There's no easy way for me to find them.

Meta charity focused on earning to give?