You might find this post interesting, which covered this and 3 other similar recent economics papers

Matthew Yglesias wrote a Giving Tuesday piece about GiveDirectly that makes a compelling case for effective giving to a general audience. The article addresses why one should consider directing charity to the Global South, what makes cash transfers an appealing intervention, and how this approach can be reconciled with the desire to volunteer locally.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/you-can-help-the-poorest-people-in

My first reaction is that working on AI safety directly is more specialised and niche, so it might be your comparative advantage, while the 80k one might be filled by candidates from a wider range of backgrounds

I downvoted. This post would be better if it was a clearer explanation of what the organisation does, its theory of change, impact and cost-effectiveness, and only a brief description of the job opening

Plus it seems like there are a bunch of employees on the website already

I also don't feel comfortable claiming this as a Gift Aid eligible 'donation'

• I can't remember the wording on the registration page, but I think it was phrased around purchasing a ticket, rather than making a donation
  • And as you said, there wasn't any mention of Gift Aid declarations (regardless of whether CEA was going to do anything with that)
• Even the confirmation email I got said 'Date of purchase' (rather than 'Date of donation' or similar)
• While it is true that you could have gotten a free ticket meaning that there was no extra benefit in paying (pointed out by domdomegg here)
  • I'm not sure how it works given that there was an application process and your application could be rejected
  • More importantly, HMRC seem to be wise to the idea of treating all ticket purchases as donations, in 3.43.6 here it states:

A charity can charge what it likes for a ticket to attend its event. However, it should not put the charity’s funds at risk and, therefore, should set the ticket price at a level to at least recover its costs.

And I'm pretty sure the wording on the registration page was something like "£400 lets us recoup the cost from running the event" or similar.

So I don't think HMRC would see these payments as 'monies received as fundraising during an event that the charity put on' rather than 'ticket price for an event' (which is not an eligible donation)

Is there much administrative overhead to claim Gift Aid?

If 500(?) people are paying £400 (for a total of £200,000), you can claim £50,000 from the government which seems like it should be worthwhile 

And it's not too late to collect people's Gift Aid declarations (section 3.6.3 here)

I'm disturbed by a couple of things in this thread:

• @OllieBase is giving very confident tax advice, which I'm not sure is correct
  • It seems to be contradicted by a later email exchange between the EAG team and Lovkush
•  In that email exchange, it turns out that we could choose the free ticket and then separately make a tax-deductible donation to CEA through GWWC
  • Why isn't this more publicised? Every UK tax payer would benefit from this (or CEA themselves would benefit by being able to claim 25% extra)