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.

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kolota

Parts of this read like an opening movie scene of an over-optimistic scientist about to create zombie cows.

But otherwise an interesting development.

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 

Has GiveWell considered a grant?

I don’t have the context or best expertise to make a cost effectiveness estimate here so as an individual donor I’m more likely to just give to GiveWell’s All Grants Fund.

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.

See here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BFbNymbn4ukmKWHrX/donation-multiplier-stacking-directing-1-27x-to-6-6x-more

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/ 

New broader waiver to the freeze for life-saving assistance announced

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-issues-new-waiver-humanitarian-aid-amid-freeze-2025-01-29/