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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.
Crossposted to LessWrong.
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Disclaimer: Although I work on the Groups Team at CEA, I’m writing this in a personal capacity, and this post does not constitute an endorsement by CEA.
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Hey zenc!
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yfpGTWTry9e5pDX4y/have-you-written-a-will-involving-a-bequest-to-charity-do
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Another guide from 2014 with several defunct links here.
State of the art today (for now): most Effective Giving Organisations have a "Bequests / Last Wills" webpage. To my knowledge there is no "effective giving online will generator" platform (yet).
Current people I'm aware of that are doing this at or above ~0.1 FTE is Anne Schulze (Effektiv Spenden co founder), Fianna Nieuwenstein (Senior Comms professional at Doneer Effectief).
There are other players who have WIP products but I'm unclear to the extent I can disclose here. I am personally extremely interested in this question and overall subject. We should DM