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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.
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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.
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TL;DR: Marginal Victories is a new initiative to provide 1:1 career advising, opportunities, and resources for people exploring high-leverage U.S. democracy preservation and political work. Built by impact-oriented people doing pro-democracy work, the early MVP is now up at marginalvictories.org. Fill out the 10-minute form now to receive these resources as they become available over the next few...
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I think these all seem like petitions worth signing. But I think statements with unfounded impact estimates should be avoided on the forum. Not only do the numbers seem arbitrary, and then the result of 1000x very arbitrary, they also aren't obviously true - I'm not sure that 1, 2, or in fact any of these are 10x as easy to mitigate or solve as the average petition.