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10 Post author: gjm 02 March 2014 09:09PM

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Comment author: gjm 03 March 2014 10:23:11AM 1 point [-]

Toby Ord

Damn, I meant to mention him and then forgot. (Is it really many effective altruists? He's the only example I know of, but I haven't gone looking very hard.)

Comment author: peter_hurford 03 March 2014 03:00:58PM 3 points [-]

It's the basis for Giving What We Can's Further Pledge. I know of a few other people who have taken it, either implicitly or explicitly.

Comment author: gjm 03 March 2014 03:17:16PM 0 points [-]

Gotcha. Thanks.

Comment author: benkuhn 04 March 2014 05:20:46AM 1 point [-]

Will MacAskill does, and I think many other CEA employees. I think Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise do an ad-hoc thing but similar in that they mostly don't treat the percentage donated as relevant--they set their personal allowance based on making their best effort without taking into account how much they're currently earning. (I'm not 100% sure this is accurate though.) I don't know the giving habits of many other EtGers but I wouldn't be surprised if they used a broadly similar method to Jeff and Julia.

Comment author: jkaufman 05 March 2014 10:25:31PM *  2 points [-]

Julia and I handle our donations differently:

  • Everything Julia earns is donated, after taxes.
  • I pick a percentage of my income at the beginning of the year to be donated.

Last year I went for 30%, this year I'm going for 33%.

EDIT: As of 2014-07-15 we're now using a simpler system: we both donate half of what we earn.