Cross-posted from my Substack.
Epistemic status: I’ve puzzled over this for a long time but I’m not sure I came to the right answers. I'm sharing this partly because it might help others work on resource allocation, but mostly because some smarter reader might tell me how to do it better.
TL;DR:
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With the AI windfall, mental health may be taken increasingly seriously by mainstream EA. There’s increasingly room to explore the cause area and answer some of the biggest uncertainties; at the same time, costs of the most effective interventions are continuing to fall. StrongMinds is now treating for ~$35, about a third of GiveWell’s best guess from a few years ago, and is expected to...
Just a small idea I had: is anyone aware of artists who make “sleep music” on Spotify or any other streaming service who verifiably donate their streaming revenue?
It seems like a low-effort way to have a pretty sizeable impact. Some of these sleep artists are racking up millions of plays. Could maybe get some new people learning about EA as well.
Hank Green has done this on YouTube, and has a video discussing the economics (about $1000/month! although already having an audience presumably helped).