This kind of thing gets asked every now and then, eg EA for dumb people?

Things to check about a job or internship

AGI safety career advice - Richard Ngo

Nonliear also does career coaching as well now.

Perhaps also https://www.trainingforgood.com/ and the more niche https://bluedotimpact.org/ 

I've been lazily throwing job related links here https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YCobjyMhaKHArjwQt/what-resources-should-job-seekers-know-about 

Some other career orgs:
 

• https://www.probablygood.org/
• https://www.animaladvocacycareers.org/ 

And for what it's worth, 80,000 Hours has a bunch global health & animal related postings on their job board.

We could still use more short, casual videos to win tens of thousands of dollars for effective charities! See Project for Awesome 2023: Make a short video for an EA charity!

There's a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/

I think the comments aren't exactly what you'd get on this forum but some of them are helpful and accurate.

Here are lists or courses that I collected that I'm too lazy to reconcile with the above:

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xwhu3HGG2BtjLNpLcbFGLdmZm2kPbDi1-XlBukYf-0o/edit 

List of university courses on effective altruism 

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Bd4xeHeNgBywrofW6/psychology-of-effective-altruism-course-syllabus-1 - psychology of effective altruism syllabus 

'Doing good better - moral philosophy and Effective Altruism' course syllabus.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Shyfng2xGBHvG5qAK/courses-and-collaborative... (read more)

You may be interested in https://www.eagoodgovernance.com 

The EA subreddit is getting more participation from critics and/or people understandably upset about FTX. This is resulting in some low quality posts hitting the frontpage of the subreddit, since it's so small and not very active.

I used to donate monthly instead of at the end of the year. I eventually decided there were advantages to donating at the end of the year* , though there may be ways to seek both benefits like donating a small portion monthly to get the good good feelings more often.

* orgs have a more complete picture of their funding need, donation matching opportunities, maybe you'd benefit from something like donating stock which may have some overhead you don't want to repeat, you have the most information available, evaluators have put out their new recommendations, ...

Doing Ops in EA FAQ: before you join (2022)

See also posts with similar tags, such as career-advising.

I don't want to imply that this must be a barrier to action, but how much time have you spent digging in to questions relevant to cause prioritization? Your priorities might change as you investigate more.

Here are a couple flowcharts - if you haven't engaged with a particular question before, like really grappled with whether animals have moral status, you might find your priorities change as you think through these considerations.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TCtbuGC3yBisToXxZ/a-guided-cause-prioritisation-flowchart

http://globalprioritiesproje... (read more)

I'd say start with this opportunities board https://ea-internships.pory.app/ - you can filter for volunteer opportunities. Heck, maybe some part-time work would be relevant as well.

There's also this Facebook group for EA volunteering https://www.facebook.com/groups/1392613437498240

You could also try things like applying to EAGx Virtual and try to find out about projects by just asking people.

What's the minimum sized audience that you'd be happy to present to?

Will is promoting longtermism as a key moral priority - merely one of our priorities, not the sole priority. He'll say things like (heavily paraphrased from my  memory) "we spend so little on existential risk reduction - I don't know how much we should spend, but maybe once we're spending 1% of GDP we can come back and revisit the question".

It's therefore disappointing to me when people write responses like this, responding to the not-widely-promoted idea that longtermism should be the only priority.

A bit of a sidestep but there there is also the new Longtermism Fund , for more legible longtermist donations that are probably easier to justify.

Thanks!

I think that is discussed in https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dsCTSCbfHWxmAr2ZT/open-ea-global (perhaps more directly in the comments if only indirectly in the main post, I don't quite recall).

I think it's because the conferences are networking-focused and the organizers want the attendees to be likely to have productive meetings (like if you physically bump in to someone, CEA wants high odds that they  can help you or you can help them).

(Please correct me if I am wrong.)

I assume the broad categories for rejection from EAG are that CEA doesn'... (read more)

In case anyone else is curious, the podcast is Ben Yeoh Chats

"Agency" needs nuance - an update from the author.

I appreciate the link. I didn't make good use of it, unfortunately - instead of reading it carefully I searched the page for the acronym hoping to find an expansion, and didn't end up reading the list of properties.

I am told that APS, in this context, stands for "advanced, planning, strategically aware" and is from Carlsmith's report https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13353

NPR ask for personal messages from people involved in their local EA communities to play during a live interview with William MacAskill: https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/wq1nlm/help_with_upcoming_npr_interview_with_william/ 

To the extent that I'm outside of the general population I think it's because of my giving, but I generally feel squarely inside the box of ordinary people. I can relate to not feeling as smart as many EAs.

I think there are numerous things a typical person could do to take EA ideas and try to concretely make the world a better place:

One action that I think is broadly available is to join some advocacy group for EA-related policies on some local / regional / national level like animal welfare, electoral reform, sane land use policy, or something else. You c... (read more)

High Impact Athletes might have more potential super donors than the general population:

https://highimpactathletes.org/contact 

I know that professional grant makers think that last-dollar funding is not cost effective because they aren't funding more projects, but aren't out of dollars.

None of our big donors were intending to spend all of their funding before now. It's taken Open Phil years to grow their capacity and increase their giving in line with their standards of diligence. They intend to spend down their funds, I believe, within the lifetime of their funders.

With respect to the last dollar of funding: I think Open Philanthropy expects to spend their last dollar on something more cost-effective than GiveDirectly. So I think the last dollar of spending will still look good, and at the worst case your spending now will move some other funding to something somewhat less effective but still pretty good down the line.

Another potential advantage for an individual donor would be identifying something not currently receiving large amounts of funding that you think is worth taking a bet on. That would give the initiativ... (read more)

Sounds like an ugh field. Spencer Greenberg also had a podcast episode on motivation recently, including backchaining to your ultimate motivations through a series of "why" questions in order to access more motivating feelings. 

My random advice would be to book a friend or maybe some EA whose done it before to walk you through the process and provide their flight-booking wisdom (a pretense or useful or both) like "you have to pay for a checked bag both ways so maybe it's better to upgrade to the seat with a free checked bag".

Scott Alexander reviewed this book that reviewed health care systems in different countries:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-which-country-has-the

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-health?s=r 

I appreciate that I can donate to Polish Centre for International Aid via their Facebook fundraiser for Ukraine, instead of having to figure out crypto.

Just to note these:

- Outreach to high schoolers has been tried in the form of Students for High Impact Charity. Their postmortem is here https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/3HaXa7dtu86NQNEZJ/shic-will-suspend-outreach-operations 

- I think I recall that one of the EA funds (longterm or meta) funded a project to give top math competitors copies of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I'm not sure whether any retrospective for that effort is available.

How does one donate to the Effective Institutions Project?

Great post William, thanks!

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I appreciate this writeup! Some of the interventions and insights were new to me even after attempting my own research in to improving sleep quality.

Adjacent opportunity: grants from Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/apply-for-an-acx-grant 

Also the adjacent Emergent Ventures grants https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures