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Claim explainer: donor lotteries and returns to scale
calebwithers10

As a counterpoint, I intended to contribute to the donation lottery (couldn't arrange tax deductibility outside the US), and think it would be a good thing if most EAs participated in donation lotteries.

All of the people that would be interested in participating are already effective altruists. That means that as a hobby they are already spending tons of time theorizing on what donations they would make to be more efficient. Is the value of information from additional research really sufficient to make it worthwhile in this context? Keep in mind that muc

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CFAR’s new focus, and AI Safety
calebwithers30

I intend to donate to MIRI this year; do you anticipate that upcoming posts or other reasoning/resources might or should persuade people like myself to donate to CFAR instead?

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1AnnaSalamon
I think we'll have it all posted by Dec 18 or so, if you want to wait and see. My personal impression is that MIRI and CFAR are both very good buys this year and that best would be for each to receive some donation (collectively, not from each person); I expect the care for MIRI to be somewhat more straight-forward, though. I'd be happy to Skype/email with you or anyone re: the likely effects of donating to CFAR, especially after we get our posts up.
Peer-to-peer "knowledge exchanges"
calebwithers10

What would be the advantage of bartering tutoring compared to the flexibility of simply selling and buying?

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1[anonymous]
Some people have abundant resources in time but not in money. That's the one advantage of such a system.