https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/W4JksntnuFABZCkCw/funding-strategies-for-global-public-goods
^ I would read this to get some perspective on how to think about funding mechanisms and converting all the way to morally actionable outputs.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mopsmd3JELJRyTTty/ozzie-gooen-s-shortform?commentId=GHT2r3ubscoXPwfb3
https://www.longtermwiki.com/wiki/E411
https://ea-crux-project.vercel.app/ai-transition-model-views/graph
^ check out what ozzie is doing here (ea quick take + longtermism wiki + ea crux project).
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zuQeTaqrjveSiSMYo/a-proposed-hierarchy-of-longtermist-concepts
^ good way to try to operationalize real world quantities into morally relevant long termism.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/y5n47MfgrKvTLE3pw
^ moral weights project to give baseline for moral circle sliders.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/3hH9NRqzGam65mgPG/five-steps-for-quantifying-speculative-interventions
^ broad post on trying to do this for more speculative stuff.
but yea this is hard and goes exponential quickly
My take is we should start by really drilling down a db of charity financials, charity outputs (or intervention outputs and charities are composed of interventions), then pipes for converting between outputs into outcomes, with fungible philosophy pipes that take outcomes and pipe into rankings
ranking charities requires solving or assuming:
- Metaethics 📚
- Population ethics 👥
- Philosophy of mind 🧠
- Decision theory 🎲
- Astrobiology 👽
- The nature of consciousness 💭
- Whether distance matters (in space 🌌 AND time ⏳)
- on top of all the boiler plate auditing.
This isn't a precise answer to your question, but you might find this from Rethink pretty interesting. They've made a few different tools which help you figure out where you should donate based on your philosophical beliefs. It won't tell you which real-life charity to donate to, but it will tell you which kind of charity you should look for in real life.
Thanks for sharing that. I feel like there cheating a bit by having the user enter in how many DALYs they think $1000 will prevent, lol.