Tyler Kolota
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If you ever find high-impact data that could need cleaning or could need to be pulled from like PDFs & scanned images then let me know as I often work develop tools related to this in my day-job.
By “make more sense” I mean like change the calculations to be more positive for, but still uncertain on the broader decision of give now vs. invest.
Like I’d assume one could at least 2X their annual donations with these things. So for someone using these strategies the give now argument should be 2X stronger for the sum of donations they can multiply now that they can’t multiply in the future.
There are tax reasons & annual donation multiplier reasons like employee donation matching or matching events or credit card incentives, that make donating some percent each year of life make more sense.
There are also ways to leverage smaller donations to direct larger sums of money. See how to multiply small donations by 1.27x to 6.6x here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BFbNymbn4ukmKWHrX/donation-multiplier-stacking-directing-1-27x-to-6-6x-more
In addition to looking for concrete feedback on small-to-medium donations, there are ways to direct an even larger amount of funds with your donations so they have more impact.
Checking back in. Contractors have started some discussions on what specific activities can resume, but with all USAID staff put on admin leave & recalled it is very uncertain what is actually happening with PEPFAR. Right now the waivers make for some PR for Rubio, but aid is still functionally blocked.
Also…
“Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.”
I think solutions that solve all of climate change may be more tractable than wide-reaching solutions for factory farming / animal suffering.
Climate change resolutions that cost $1 trillion a year or less & don’t require widespread political change…
-SO2 Injection
-Olivine Rock Weathering
-Continued Steep Cost Declines in Renewables & Batteries
-Abundant Carbon Neutral Synthetic Gas
How to Solve Climate Change https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/we-can-already-stop-climate-change
Current SO2 Credits https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection
Donate
https://makesunsets.com/products/join-the-next-balloon-launch-and-cool-the-planet
Olivine Rock Weathering https://worksinprogress.co/issue/olivine-weathering/
Steep Renewables & Batteries Cost Declines https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/11/09/solar-and-batteries-for-generic-use-cases/
Abundant Carbon Neutral Synthetic Gas https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/how-terraform-navigated-the-idea-maze/
If anyone else is into software development / Azure resources & is underutilized, I have this on my to-do list:
Set up a simple website to allow people to contact their congress people on various global health & EA issues. Research best ways to create & host a site.
Issues:
-Global health & Pandemic preparedness & Medical science
-Factory farming & Animal welfare
-Housing
-Low-cost energy
-Global Liberalism & China & Ukraine
-Autocratic use of AI
Put link to site on all open source project pages asking people in the US to pick at least 1 topic to contact their reps about as a thank you for free product use.
Include follow-up actions on site like best programs to donate to & personal actions like following a Vegan or Ex-Cow-Vegan diet.
Include relevant links for more info on causes.
I have a couple work contracts to get through for the next like 4 months, but then I wanted to work on this to get some more low-cost website development experience & political advocacy experience. But if anyone else wants to pick this up or prepare pieces of this before next January/February, let me know.