Effective Altruism Forum
EA Forum

All of Matt_Wage's Comments + Replies

EA Meta Fund AMA: 20th Dec 2018
Matt_Wage5y10
0
0

We mean “EA meta” in the sense of EA organizations that aren’t directly attacking the object level problems (Global Poverty, Animal Welfare, GCRs, etc) but are instead attacking them in a more indirect (and hopefully more leveraged) way. Some broad categories that would count as “meta” are:

· Organizations focused on improving or growing the EA community (e.g. CEA, 80k)

· Organizations fundraising for effective causes (e.g. Founders Pledge)

· Organizations doing priorities research (e.g. GPI)

The way the EA funds partition the EA space (into Poverty/Animals/Fa... (read more)

Reply
5
agdfoster
5y
I also quite like: Upstream orgs that improve the quantity and quality of available talent, capital and insight. It's snappy, easy to remember and gets to the heart of the cause area. I don't think it's as clear what it means though and perhaps shouldn't be used by itself without further explanation.
Where I'm giving and why: Will MacAskill
Matt_Wage10y0
0
0

I like Carl's idea for the EA fund. I have some money in a DAF that I would register on an "EA fund website".

Reply