I don't mind this at all. My new site for First Domino is Claude made and would admit it looks similar to other sites you list, but doesn't bother me at all. In a previous life as a web developer this would have taken me a big chunk of time to get right and in the current world would have cost a lot of money to outsource, but instead I got this up and running very quickly and can make edits easily as well. I've received pretty positive feedback as well. I'd encourage other orgs to do this as well, at least out of the gate - I've seen people overthinking the website and other non-essentials early on with their startups as a pretty common failure mode. 

If and when the vibe changes and e.g. Claude sites are seen as negative it won't be hard to hire an expert to give a different flair.

Great write-up, Jack. Appreciate you taking the time to post this 'public good' when it takes time away from other things. 

EA is (again) having a moment:

•  Twitter is all in a buzz about it, arguing about insect lives being worth more than human lives
• It is the cover of The Economist with the headline "The century’s biggest idea"
• The  US Defense Department tweeted "Americanism, not effective altruism"
• ...and so on.

The usual suspects are in the trenches fighting the good fight, but this is a great time for EAs to take some comms action. An example I particularly loved was @Andres Jimenez Zorrilla 🔸 's post on LinkedIn and Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andres-jimenez-zorrilla_im-a-longtime-effective-altruist-and-the-share-7512717228480413696-7Y_k/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAINuQ8BRM6_FTbj8vR-viYZrP0S2TPoUEg

This is the sort of collective action problem that EAs think is some other EA's responsibility and comms isn't our traditional strong suit, but I'd love to see more EAs in the arena here, posting about their experiences, posting their arguments, or talking to friends and family about why these ideas matter.

It is a really good point and with many projects you really have to wonder if they are above the bar. Indeed you have to take that very seriously, because the dollars you get are often very counterfactual (e.g. they'd go to Against Malaria Foundation instead). Ideally you'd get a market signal by charging customers and using their willingness to pay to understand if your service is valuable. But I've seen time and time again that orgs don't pay for things that are clearly +EV for them.

I like bounties and advanced market commitments and hadn't thought of bringing them meta - thank you for that!

Thanks for the feedback - I can see that.

Thanks Mathias - very happy you posted this in this state and would encourage you and others to do more of this!

Thanks for this and for your grants database. I didn't know about it and it is very useful.

I'd be curious if you or anyone else reading this has more concrete ideas about how to improve the 'superstructure' as you call it.

Yeah I think that is a good point although I don't know if I'd say 'significant differences' – the effect size here seems really small and also I'd expect since they don't control for income etc and just take the mean that potential gains in e.g. well-off moms are more than canceled out by worse-off moms who have a hard time making ends me, and I'd guess that EAs are in general more in the well-off category, although of course not exclusively.

Just anecdata-wise I don't know many moms in my bubble who'd say they were worse off - it could be that they are and social desirability bias is at play or it could be that like in these papers they are and the effect size is just so small they don't really feel it, I don't know. 

Knowing you Jacintha, curious what you would say in your own N=1 case but would understand if you didn't want to post it on the forum!

Thanks Zoe - It is a good point as I think men's and women's views could differ here quite a bit. 

My general take on my partner (can't prioritize asking right now, but it is a good prompt for another post in the series!) having discussed these things over time is she is way more satisfied with life in general than she was before kids. I think she'd endorse the productivity and leadership upgrades, but prob feels the sting of working fewer hours more.

It is worth noting the post is mostly about how this affects EAs, which she is not, so I might be a tighter reference class here, although I have met a lot of families and they do seem to have different takes by gender, so maybe she is the right reference class. I don't know! If you have specific questions I'd be happy to answer offline.

Thanks Mitchell, I appreciate the feedback.