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I agree that one word is better but I think this factor is less important than other factors like clarity. Because of this, I think "Helping others" would be better than "Helpfulness."
I also think the placement of "Cause prioritization" and "Collaboration" should be switched in the primary proposal so that "Cause prioritization" is next to "Effectiveness."
And in the alternative proposal, I think "Cause prioritization" should be replaced with "Commitment to others."
I strongly prefer "reasoning carefully" to "rationality" to avoid EA being too closely associated with the rationality community and people's perceptions of it. Notably, in his post defining effective altruism, William MacAskill uses "careful reasoning."
As for "greatest impact," I think it works reasonably well in a sentence combining all six values: the EA community uses evidence and careful reasoning to identify causes and approaches that allow for the greatest impact from an altruistic and impartial perspective and pursues those causes and approaches in a collaborative and norm-respecting manner.
I really like the idea of an acronym! Thank you for taking the time to create one and write a post about it. If I may, I'd like to add another option to the table:
Collaboration
Altruism
Reasoning carefully
Impartiality
Norms (integrity, inclusion etc.)
Greatest impact
I like the word "caring" because it pushes back against the idea that a highly deliberative approach to altruism is uncaring.
Michael Bitton has used this argument as a reductio against longtermism (search "Here's an argument").
It seems it could work as to the medium term but would not work as to the very long term because i) if the fertility rate is above replacement, the initial additional people stop having a population effect after humanity reaches carrying capacity and ii) if the fertility rate is below replacement, the number of additional people in each generation attributable to the initial additional people would eventually reach zero.
Two suggestions for the list of "broad categories of longer-term roles that can offer a lot of leverage" under "Aim at top problems":
- Under "Direct work", add foundations as one type of organization and grantmaking as one type of skill (or make this a separate category)
- Under "Government and policy", add international organization to the list of employers to consider
Similar changes could be made to the "Five key categories" in the article "List of high-impact careers".
Thanks Luke. Do you know why EA Funds excludes ACE Movement Grants? There is substantial overlap between the recipients of ACE Movement Grants and the recipients of EA Animal Welfare Fund grants, which is why I wanted clarification that exclusion is not meant to imply anything negative about ACE Movement Grants.
Feature request: Create an option for content in the "Recent Discussion" section to be sorted based on the "Magic (New & Upvoted)" formula used for "Frontpage Posts" instead of based solely on recency. This would allow people without time to go through every single piece of new content to still be able to find and engage with important new comments.
For animal suffering:
- we can't say that farm animals live lives that are not worth living;
- advocating higher welfare standards legitimizes factory farming;
- corporations are unlikely to adhere to their higher welfare pledges;
- commercial fishing is okay since fish usually die painfully anyways;
- bad to transition from animal farming since jobs would be lost;
- the world will eventually transition to cultivated meat anyways;
- should end human suffering before addressing animal suffering;
- advocates ignore how food system affects communities of color;*
- I can't donate to farm animal advocacy if I haven't gone vegan; and
- wild animal advocates support radically altering the ecosystem.
*There is some truth to this statement, especially regarding the past, and the answer should candidly acknowledge this. (There may also be some truth to some of the other statements, but I thought this one was especially worth highlighting.)
I do have a question for you. On GWWC's "Best Charities to Donate to in 2020" page, under the "Give together, as a community" section, GWWC omits ACE Movement Grants. Is this intentional, and if so, can you publicly state GWWC's reasoning?
Global Poverty and Animal Suffering Donation Opportunities (2020)
Comprehensively Evaluated Charities
GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund (allocated between GiveWell Top and Standout Charities at GiveWell's discretion; list of GiveWell Top Charities for 2020 below)
- Malaria Consortium (seasonal malaria chemotherapy)
- Against Malaria Foundation (anti-malaria bednet distribution)
- Helen Keller International (Vitamin A supplementation)
- SCI Foundation (deworming)
- Sightsavers (deworming)
- New Incentives (vaccine uptake)
- Deworm the World Initiative (deworming)
- The END Fund (deworming)
- GiveDirectly (unconditional cash transfers)
Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) Recommended Charity Fund (allocated between ACE Top and Standout Charities at ACE's discretion; list of ACE Top Charities for 2020 below)
- Albert Schweitzer Foundation (corporate campaigns)
- The Humane League (corporate campaigns and movement building)
- Good Food Institute (supporting development of meat alternatives)
- Wild Animal Welfare (research and field building)
Other Promising Opportunities
EA Global Health and Development Fund (allocated between promising global health and development projects at the discretion of GiveWell co-founder Elie Hassenfeld; links to most recent grants below)
- October 2020: Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention
- September 2020: IDinsight
- July 2020: Innovations for Poverty Action
- June 2020: IDinsight
EA Animal Welfare Fund (allocated between promising animal welfare projects at the discretion of a team led by Lewis Bollard, the program officer for farm animal welfare at the Open Philanthropy Project; links to most recent grant rounds below)
ACE Movement Grants (allocated between promising animal advocacy projects around the world at ACE's discretion; links to all grant rounds below)
Charity Entrepreneurship incubated charities
- Fish Welfare Initiative (research and outreach)
- Animal Advocacy Careers (career advice)
- Policy Entrepreneurship Network (public health policy)
- Happier Lives Institute (well-being research)*
- Suvita (vaccine uptake)
- Lead Exposure Elimination Project (lead paint regulation)
- Animal Ask (researching what to ask for in future campaigns)
- Family Empowerment Media (media campaigns about contraception)
- Canopie (program to address postpartum depression)*
- Giving Green (climate change donation recommendations)*
*included despite arguably falling outside the scope of global poverty and animal suffering
Infrastructure Organizations
GiveWell (evaluates promising interventions and charities in the global poverty space)
Animal Charity Evaluators (evaluates promising interventions and charities in the animal suffering space)
Charity Entrepreneurship (incubates high-impact charities)
Rethink Priorities (prioritization research mostly on animals)
General infrastructure organizations
- Centre for Effective Altruism (local group support, conferences, EA Forum, EA Funds, Giving What We Can etc.)
- 80,000 Hours (podcast, job board, general career concepts etc.)
- (I've excluded organizations that appear not to accept donations from the general public such as Women and Non-Binary Altruism Mentorship and Founder's Pledge)
How about just Good Careers?
The two most widely known EA organizations, GiveWell and 80,000 Hours, both have short and simple names.
Great work! I think it might be a good idea for you to state on the page that the numbers are per kcal of energy. I clicked the link before reading your post and initially assumed it was the impact of eliminating the category from a standard diet. For what it's worth, I think it could be useful to have "impact of category in a standard diet" as an option on the page.