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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
TLDR; To help the effective animal advocacy movement cost-effectively absorb greater amounts of funding in the near future, we are seeking expressions of interest from people who could found a new organization focused on:
* Highly neglected animals: insects, wild animals, shrimp, fish, etc, or
* AI and animals: AI alignment and governance for animal welfare, strategic actions considering transformative AI, AI for wild animals, etc.
* ...
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My personal opinion: these kind of important, time-sensitive, and relatively content-free fundraising announcements should be kept to EA Facebook groups.
I agree. I won't ban content like this from the Forum, but I do recommend that people share it on platforms like Facebook that people tend to check more frequently, and which more easily "hide" content that is no longer relevant.
In most cases, I expect to keep short-term fundraisers in the "Personal Blog" category (with some exceptions for large community-wide activities like EA Giving Tuesday, or for posts that also include substantive content about a cause area).
Sounds good, makes sense, Peter and Aaron.