[Crossposted from the EA Forum. Particularly relevantly to LessWrong, I'm interested in funding more rationality groups at universities.] Open Philanthropy recently launched two new fellowships intended to provide funding for university group organizers: the University Group Organizer Fellowship (apply here), and the Century Fellowship (apply here). This post is intended...
(Cross-posted from the EA Forum) This post was written by Buck and Claire Zabel but it’s written in Buck’s voice, and “I” here refers to Buck, because it’s about grantmaking that he might do. (Claire contributed in her personal capacity, not as an Open Phil grantmaker). In addition to accepting...
[Cross-posted from the EA Forum.] Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals from applicants interested in growing the community of people motivated to improve the long-term future via the kinds of projects described below.[1] Apply to start a new project here; express interest in helping with a project here. We hope to...
[Crossposted from the EA Forum. Particularly relevantly to LessWrong, I'm interested in funding more rationality groups at universities.]
Open Philanthropy recently launched two new fellowships intended to provide funding for university group organizers: the University Group Organizer Fellowship (apply here), and the Century Fellowship (apply here). This post is intended to give some more color on the two programs, and our reasoning behind them. In the post, we cover:
We’d also like this post to function as an AMA for our university student-focused work. We’ll be answering questions... (read 3615 more words →)
I have the same problem. Often, if I have food scraps I expect will smell bad, I put it into a gallon-sized ziplock bag, then close that, then put that in the trash, which I find helps (and is less gross to me than taking the whole bag of trash outside then having to replace the bin liner more frequently).
I think some of these are really neat and interesting ideas. I will keep them in mind, but also encourage you to think about whether you might actually be the best fit for this project (as far as I know no one has done it so far but you, it's hard for people to absorb one anothers' models and enthusiasms, I doubt we will get a ton of applicants).
(Cross-posted from the EA Forum)
This post was written by Buck and Claire Zabel but it’s written in Buck’s voice, and “I” here refers to Buck, because it’s about grantmaking that he might do. (Claire contributed in her personal capacity, not as an Open Phil grantmaker).
In addition to accepting applications for EA groups in some locations as part of my EAIF grantmaking, I am interested in evaluating applications from people who run groups (in-person or online, full-time or part-time) on a variety of related topics, including:
[Cross-posted from the EA Forum.]
Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals from applicants interested in growing the community of people motivated to improve the long-term future via the kinds of projects described below.[1]
Apply to start a new project here; express interest in helping with a project here.
We hope to draw highly capable people to this work by supporting ambitious, scalable outreach projects that run for many years. We think a world where effective altruism, longtermism, and related ideas are routine parts of conversation in intellectual spaces is within reach, and we’re excited to support projects that work towards that world.
In this post, we describe the kinds of projects we’re interested in funding, explain why... (read 2867 more words →)
I feel like this post treats vigilance and paranoia as free. To act generally differently in my life to be a lot more paranoid and a lot more careful about things like getting background checks on people who work on buildings that I work in, I'd want to be convinced that this is actually a good use of time, and that a lot of people in my reference class should actually be doing this. I want to compare the micromorts to the amount of time it will take me plus some sort of fuzzy measure of social capital lost, the cost of being anxious, etc. I don't personally know of anyone who... (read more)