Update: Here's the video of Holden's session.
Holden Karnofsky will be answering questions submitted by community members during one of the main sessions at EA Global: Reconnect.
Submit your questions here by 11:59 pm PDT on Thursday, March 18, or vote for the questions you most want Holden to answer.
About Holden
Holden Karnofsky sets the strategy and oversees the work of Open Philanthropy. Holden co-founded GiveWell in 2007, and began co-developing Open Philanthropy (initially called GiveWell Labs) in 2011. He has a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University. His writings include Radical Empathy, Excited Altruism, and Some Thoughts on Public Discourse.
Hey Charles, yeah Sean _o_ h made a similar comment. I now see that a lot of the scientific research grants are still targeted towards global health and development or biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.
Nevertheless, I think my questions still stand - I'd still love to hear how OpenPhil decided to grant more towards scientific research, especially for global health and development. I'm also curious if there are already any "big wins" among these scientific research grants.
I also think it's worth asking him "Do you think more EAs should be looking into careers in scientific research? Why or why not?". I think only a few EA groups have discussion groups about scientific research or improving science, so I guess a related question would be if he thinks that there should be more reading groups / discussion groups on scientific research or improving science, in order to increase the number of EAs interested in scientific research as a career.