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This post is co-authored with Ben Garfinkel. It is cross-posted from the CEA blog. A PDF version can be found here.
Summary: Some strategic decisions available to the effective altruism m...
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TL;DR: I'm releasing a website that ranks philanthropists according to EA principles and research, and allows users to re-rank the list using their own assumptions. I'd like feedback and help making it better. I'd especially like ideas for how to make the results more trustworthy. Funding may be available.Â
Crossposted to LessWrong.
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Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted. Disagreement very welcome.
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Coefficient Giving (cG) announced a $1 billion gift to GiveWell on 23rd July. This increases a previous commitment of $175m for 2026. cG say this could be a one-off surge, but it has implications for other donors either way. Both organisations...
Recent opportunities to take action
Ray Dalio is offering 10,000 free $100 charity girtcards to the first people who sign up.
https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1334543462063104001?s=19
https://redefinegifting.tisbest.org/
Max $100k per charity
This is full, but it's worth getting people to subscribe for the future
I absolutely agree. 20 minutes ago Ray Dalio just Tweeted:
Naively I'd estimate a ~30% chance that people who sign up within the next 24 hours receive a $100 gift card to donate.
Open again for 20k people at $50 each.
https://redefinegifting2021.tisbest.org/
20,000 more $50 Charity Gift Cards were made available at 1 PM EST today. Will probably be gone by 2-4 PM EST today, so anyone reading this before then sign up now: https://redefinegifting.tisbest.org/