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Each year the Terminally Online EA Fundraiser asks a bold question: What if your Twitter feed could reduce suffering? Whether you’re a forum poster, a memelord, a nematode welfare champion, or all of the above, we want you to celebrate impactful giving and have fun while doing so! It’s wonderful that donation celebration week on the EA forum overlaps with this annual silly fundraiser.
Just like the last two years, we wanted to use the holiday season to lean into one of the things the EA community does best: shitposting raising money for organizations effectively addressing the world’s most pressing problems. Given the massive scale of cruelty on factory farms and the tractable, neglected interventions to mitigate it, we've decided again to focus on animal welfare. Funds from this year's fundraiser will go to the EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund, which GWWC has recommended as a top-rated evaluator since 2023.
We believe that effective giving should be fun, communal, and widely celebrated. We’ve been unabashedly posting our dank EA memes and fundraiser incentives, like our interview with Will MacAskill in a shrimp costume or our musical rendition of Lewis Bollard’s TED Talk. In a world with so many grave problems to address, we’ve tried to bring a little light to this corner of the internet. So far we’ve raised $13,343 and we still have eight days to go!
Many thanks to Will for his time, thoughtful answers, and holiday cheer.
We hope you’ll join us in supporting this year’s fundraiser to show that EA continues to be about making a tangible difference in the world and having a good time while doing so. Please brag to us on Twitter or in the comments here about your donation! We’d love to celebrate it together.
For anyone who needs further motivation (and mostly just for fun) here are some additional incentives that we’re trying to hit before the end of the year:
