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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
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Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA
I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes.
On factory farming
1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...
I think that Coefficient Giving’s decision to donate more money to GiveWell is a bad one and I would like to see more discussion of its pros and cons as well as any resources folks have that explain why CG made this decision.
The short form of why I think this is a bad call is that I think that for a wide range of beliefs on other issues (AI, Bio Sec, US Democracy, Reproductive Tech, emerging farming tech) the 10 year expected return on donations is much higher than in global health. Maybe this has already been talked to death but I’d like to see a discussion on it and if anyone has resources to past arguments I’d love to see them.
Moskovitz confirmed that they are "surging budgets in 2026 across all categories"
https://bsky.app/profile/moskov.goodventures.org/post/3mrdb7fhfqs2w
I expect (most of?) their grantmaking in other areas will be less public, but unprecedentedly massive.
E.g. Dustin Moskovitz is personally aiming to donate ~$5M to Lightcone Commons
Thanks for that link, it’s good to hear that they are surging across all categories.
cG has a lot more money to give away than this, due to growth in Dustin's portfolio + pending Anthropic etc money, so it's not clear that the 1B commitment trades off much against all those other causes you listed.
That is good to know, I got a bit of sticker shock from the size of the increase. If in fact it is not trading off against other causes that makes me much less opposed to it. I can imagine an argument for Give Well as a good place to put large amounts of money that would be difficult to use well in the areas I listed, I just assumed it was trading off against those areas. Does CG publish an overview of all the money they have given in a year?
They used to as OP, but as cG they now only feature selected grants on individual Funds pages. https://www.eagrantsdatabase.org/ is your best one-stop shop at the moment.
Hey AI,vbiosec and American democracy makes sense but why a 10 year windowreproductive tech and emergingg farming tech?
I think these are underfunded and have great potential. I am also pretty pessimistic about global health funding so my bar is low for what tops it.
cG has written about this: https://coefficientgiving.org/research/worldview-diversification/
That’s helpful, do you know if they give any public details on how they split their money across the different worldviews?