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MichaelA
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Glad to hear that! Oh also, just noticed I forgot to add info on how to donate, in case you or others are interested - that info can be found at https://rethinkpriorities.org/donate 
Donation recommendations for xrisk + ai safety
vincentweisser1y1
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Thanks for sharing, website isnt working for me, is there a deeper writeup or independent evaluation of the org and effort?

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Jaime Sevilla
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Here is a write up of the organisation vision one year ago: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LyseHBvjAbYxJyKWk/improving-the-public-management-of-global-catastrophic-risks Not sure why the link above is not working for you. Here is the link again: https://riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com/
EA Funds has a Public Grants Database
vincentweisser1y3
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Love this, as i was looking for more regular grant reports while considering if i shall do all my giving to different cause area ea funds. 

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Hypercerts: A new primitive for public goods funding
vincentweisser2y4
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Extremely excited for this!

Think the effective altruism community should in general embrace some of the explorations and ideas in the broader crypto public goods sphere, and get more involved improving them and introduce insights and learning from effective altruism like cost effectiveness, meta cause evaluation and prioritization. 

Some great efforts to highlight: https://www.radicalxchange.org/ , protocol labs with https://fundingthecommons.io/ (youtube videos) , gitcoin with quadratic donations, impact daos and decentralized science etc.

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Vitalik Buterin just donated $54M (in ETH) to GiveWell
vincentweisser3y10
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Also important to note that he still has $9bn in Shibu coins left and some more in others.. might not be over. And Covid India prob will get $500m-1bn+ out of it given the liquidity of Shibu. 
 

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The case for investing to give later
vincentweisser4y9
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Fantastic initiative! One potentially interesting approach could also be to invest in strongly EA aligned startups (pathogen detection, ai safety etc.). Basically like GoodVentures investments with a stronger focus on investing and donating much later.

Could also entail funding something like Jade Leung’ long-termist project incubator or something similar to a 100% EA aligned YCombinator or EntrepreneurFirst. This could become the go-to for EAs who want to start a for-profit venture but also want to enrich a fund that is completely aligned with their vision... (read more)

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Long-term investment fund at Founders Pledge
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Fantastic initiative! One potentially interesting approach could also be to invest in strongly EA aligned startups (pathogen detection, ai safety etc.). Basically like GoodVentures investments with a stronger focus on investing and donating much later.

Could also entail funding something like Jade Leung’ long-termist project incubator or something similar to a 100% EA aligned YCombinator or EntrepreneurFirst. This could become the go-to for EAs who want to start a for-profit venture but also want to enrich a fund that is completely aligned with their... (read more)

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