I appreciate you sharing this and for making the effort to donate to help out in this world. Sometimes we can get numb to giving (or not giving) and it's helpful to get a reminder of the impact of our donations in human terms.

From a practical point of view, if all the traffic and search/other reputation is to 80k website, and the timelines are perceived to be short, I could imagine it makes sense to the team to directly adjust the focus of the website rather than take the years to build up a separate, additional brand.

If this is a critical time with probability of short timelines increasing, money invested via donations should be of higher value now vs historically.

But potential for AGI in the short term might lead folks to worry more about the potential risk to their career plus there's also the desire to invest more now to capture AGI gains, leading to donations not increasing to match their potential value in this moment.

Questions-

Any sense of if this might be the case? I have only anecdotal observations.
If it is, how can we tackle this?

App product guy and mobile game designer (in a past life) here. 

Suggestion would be to test and much as you possibly can quickly and cheaply with a bare bones MVP / prototype before you commit lots of time/money on charity setup, full app development, graphics/branding.

Most app concepts and UX's just don't resonate with users, find out if it does first before going further, and iterate as needed.

There's lots of good advice out there on how to do customer development, testing. I'd go both qualitative (blind play test, focus groups etc) and quantitative (embed analytics, see where people drop etc)

All the best with it!

Got to connect with Max through impact investing circles, he also took the time out to have a call to give feedback on another impact project, sharing his experience candidly. I remember thinking - that was really nice of him to take time out to really help a random person on the internet. Shame he was taken too early. Rest in peace Max.

This year have donated:

• 14k to long term future / s-risks / ai safety
• 12k to animal suffering
• 4k to global health / well-being

Glad to finish up with a slight increase vs last year.

Organizations:

• Center for AI safety
• AI for Animals (via Hive)
• Future of Life Institute
• Wild Animal Initiative (via GWWC)
• Centre for Reducing Suffering  
• Animal Advocacy Africa
• Malaria Consortium (via EA Australia)
• Michael Dello-Lacovo (content)
• Shrimp Welfare Project

Thanks all for working hard on the important stuff...

My question is about donation swap and is there enough critical mass of givers (and demand) to implement or help facilitate something like this?

eg- Australia can give to some cause areas / charities but not others (eg existential risk, animal policy/lobbying  etc)

Thanks for all the great work (and donations!) you and crew all do at GWWC.

Great initiative!

Quite a lot of agri projects doing similar things with satellite imagery

eg- seeing if rice farmers are adopting alternate wetting drying as opposed to traditional flooding, to reduce methane emissions. 

Not sure if there are practical lessons to be learned from those folks?

What an interesting and relevant topic area you're working on, and nice to hear you're working towards something bigger. How true about extraordinary altruistic leverage. Welcome to the forum...

Thanks for helping out with those communities in Borneo, and caring to want to do more and use reason and kindness to help more out. Welcome!