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Most organizations spend most of their money on staff. What else could you do with it? Paying fellowships for "external staff" is a possibility. But in general, good people are exactly what you need.
Often goods or needy beneficiaries are also involved. Charity actions are sometimes classified into:
This can be used as a heuristic for identifying good charities.
Not enough in category 1 and too much in categories 2 and 3 is often a bad sign.
But they're not buying malaria nets, they're doing thought-work. Do you expect to see an invoice for TDT?
Quite appart from the standard complaint about how awful a metric that is.
And yet there are plenty of things that don't cost much money that they could be doing right now, that I have previously mentioned to SIAI staff and will not repeat (edit: in detail) because it might interfere with my own similar efforts in the near future.
Basically I'm referring to public outreach, bringing in more members of the academic community, making people aware that LW even exists (I wasn't except when I randomly ran into a few LWers in person), etc.
What's the reason for downvoting this? Please comment.