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3 | Longtermist visualisations | Imagine a ‘timeline of everything’, showing major events (astronomical, geological, historical) from the Big Bang to the end of time. Users can zoom in and out, much like existing apps that show the scale of the universe | X-Risk | 4.45 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
4 | Create infographics for sharing on social media | Meta EA | 4.45 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | https://airtable.com/shrCXtRpCW1HxxafC/tblugqOktQp7zzxrm | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
5 | Translate The Precipice in Spanish | The Precipice doesn't have a Spanish translation. It should. | Meta EA | 4.35 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
6 | Create a mental health app | Global Health | 4.35 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
7 | Prediction markets | We’re excited about new prediction market platforms that can acquire regulatory approval and widespread usage. We’re especially keen if these platforms include key questions relevant to our priority areas, such as questions about the future trajectory of AI development. | Meta EA | 4.35 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
8 | Megaprojects idea contest | Entrances should include the case for impact, key uncertainties, and (crucially) possible harms. I'm not sure who would make a great judge, but perhaps folks with grant evaluation experience, or experienced forecasters. Or perhaps there is a way to have the community score the submissions. | Meta EA | 4.25 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
9 | A new university or institute | Much of academia has become too incremental, overly bureaucratic, and preoccupied with status, rather than focused on the most important problems. We’d love to see people try new approaches. In particular, the research we most want to see often doesn’t fit well into academia, because it’s too messy or too interdisciplinary, or isn’t likely to publish well in existing journals. For example, we doubt we’d get great answers from current institutions if we asked them this question: “Is all that stuff about the most important century basically right or not? Please explain without appealing to authority.” We’d be excited to fund new academic institutes, or a wholly new university. We’d also be excited about trying to attract the most exceptional talent with new incentive strategies, for example by paying salaries competitive with tech and finance jobs. | Meta EA | 4.1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | need to define more | |||||||||
10 | EA publishing house and publications | We’d love to see more books—fiction and nonfiction—by thoughtful people on the most important topics. A new publishing house could financially and operationally support this. It could have an in-house team of generalist researchers and fact-checkers, ensuring the books meet an especially high standard of epistemic rigor. Because the aim would be impact rather than profit, books could be sold at zero or close to zero cost, and marketing budgets and advances on sales could be much larger than is typical. Similarly, we’d be excited to see a news publication that places an unusually strong emphasis on formulating its claims precisely (and probabilistically), transparently distinguishing between fact and inference, discussing the weak points in its own analysis, and discussing opposing viewpoints charitably. We’d love to see this publication highlight the very most important issues for understanding and improving the world. See The Scout Mindset and Open Philanthropy on reasoning transparency for illustrations of what we have in mind. | Meta EA | 4.1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
11 | One-on-one advice matchmaking platform | an online platform where advisees and advisors can sign up and input their interests and focuses. Advisors can tell the platform how much time they're prepared to spend mentoring others, plus what times they are free to speak, and the platform can work some magic and schedule calls automatically. Think of it kind of like scalable, distributed 80k advising. | Meta EA | 4.05 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
12 | Funding EA Criticism | Solicit pieces critically assessing some existing work, ideas, directions, or empirical claims. 1,000–10,000 words, say; 2–20 hours of work. A prize pool of (say) $20,000 to $150,000, to be disbursed between multiple winners. | Meta EA | 4.05 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
13 | Create an EA projects advice group | Meta EA | 4.05 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see#Space_governance_research_centre | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
14 | Fellowships to work on pressing problems | We’re interested in projects that give people with outstanding skills and initiative—whether bright-eyed twenty-year-olds, seasoned executives, or professors at the top of their fields—the time and financial freedom to work on especially pressing problems. We’d love for them to be able to step back from their ordinary professional careers and throw themselves into learning, writing, and launching entrepreneurial projects that will secure the future of human civilization. | Meta EA | 4.05 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | need to define more | |||||||||
15 | Get a TEDx license for EAG or EAGx events | Meta EA | 4.05 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/53Wcw73rav4rkQ4WM/ea-communication-project-ideas | 0.75 | 0.5 | Needs further investigation | 1 | ||||||||||
16 | Translate Doing good Better into 6 languages | Meta EA | 4.05 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/53Wcw73rav4rkQ4WM/ea-communication-project-ideas | 0.75 | 0.5 | Needs further investigation | 1 | ||||||||||
17 | Book grantmaking | Imagine a group of evaluators with (i) a good amount of context on EA ideas, and (ii) a decent understanding of the world of publishing. As a prospective EA author, you apply with your book idea to this team, and if the pitch meets a basic threshold, then you quickly receive an advance. After that, the work of finding a publisher falls to this team of specialists, rather than the author herself. But the author retains the rights to the book if/when it is eventually published. If the group cannot find a publisher after some period of time, they have the option to self-publish, e.g. as a free ebook. | Meta EA | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
18 | Sponsor articles | Some newspapers featured sponsored articles, a kind of ‘native advertising’ where a company pays to either commission or write an article, which is released open-access on the newspaper’s website, along with a sticker indicating that “this post was sponsored by company X”. By 'open-access', I mean removing the paywall for that specific article. What about a philanthropic version of this, where someone sponsors stories about EA topics to be published and open-accessed on popular newspapers like The Guardian or The Atlantic. Philanthropic organisations do support content on major media outlets, but I'm not aware of them paying for articles to be open-accessed. This strategy might be used to quickly spread good ideas about effective altruism. | Meta EA | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
19 | Overlay Journal | An overlay journal is a journal (almost always exclusively online) that does not produce its own content, but selects from texts that are already (freely) available online. | Meta EA | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
20 | Forecasting Our World in Data | We’d love to see a project that takes one hundred of the most important charts in Our World in Data (we think the Technological Progress charts would be especially interesting) and employs superforecasters to plot out how the charts will go over the next one, three, ten, thirty and one hundred years. Ideally, the output would be well-presented and easily understandable, and display probability distributions for each year. | Meta EA | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
21 | EA-relevant Substacks, Youtube, social media, etc. | We’re interested in directly funding blogs, Substacks, or channels on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, etc. that help to grow the effective altruism movement or call attention to issues of major significance for the long-term future. | Meta EA | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
22 | Create an interview series on policy | Policy | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
23 | Brainstorming promising cause areas and interventions, then shortlisting with Fermi estimates | Meta EA | 3.95 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EMKf4Gyee7BsY2RP8/michaela-s-shortform?commentId=XMXKNBdujMkNDegza | 1 | 1 | Good prep for exploratory altruism | 1 | ||||||||||
24 | Forecasting that will affect important decisions | We think a key challenge for making forecasting organizations better is ensuring that the questions asked are interesting and important. We’d be especially excited about forecasting projects that have a great plan for ensuring that the questions asked are of significant interest to influential and altruistic actors, potentially including thoughtful government officials and large funders in the EA ecosystem. More generally, we’re interested in a “superforecasting institute.” Few jobs are more important than rigorously forecasting the future, but currently it’s hard to do that job full-time. We want to allow excellent forecasters to make superforecasting their career. And we want to explore creating prizes and fellowships that will optimally incentivize outstanding forecasting work | Meta EA | 3.95 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
25 | New publications on the most pressing issues | We’d be excited to see newspapers, magazines, and other media outlets that (i) focus on especially pressing issues for protecting humanity’s long-term future, and (ii) promote thoughtful and reasoned discourse about it. We’d also be excited about verticals within existing outlets, like Future Perfect, that do the same. | Meta EA | 3.95 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
26 | Create more EA Wikipedia articles | Meta EA | 3.95 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tIJyzuGd_pmmY1Gdi9NTTuYKT9Nnda1-5SSNa1IkR14/edit#, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FebKgHaAymjiETvXd/wikipedia-editing-is-important-tractable-and-neglected | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
27 | Create EA WIkiHow articles | Meta EA | 3.95 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZbdNFuEP2zWN5w2Yx/ryancarey-s-shortform?commentId=fPmfphHoGu2EStg9H#99dzGycrdDCuYZG8h https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dhiJO_EM8BuTt4xdR1-A6fIiFpHTV1_N_fhogCUb7Zc/edit#gid=0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
28 | Create Wikipedia pages for cognitive tools | conceptually.org is a site founded by EAs that sends a weekly newsletter with a new concept each week that is meant to serve as a new cognitive tool. Go through each of these concepts, and make sure that their wikipedia page exists and is on a high quality. | Meta EA | 3.9 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://airtable.com/shrCXtRpCW1HxxafC/tblugqOktQp7zzxrm | Will MacAskill mentioned this project idea in the following EA forum AMA: Ask Me Anything! - EA Forum | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
29 | Establish a university program in effective altruism | Meta EA | 3.9 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
30 | Run randomized controlled trials (or replications of RCTs) | RCTs of interventions that could be at least as cost-effective as GiveWell's current priority programs | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Or other types of reeaarch | 1 | |||||||||
31 | Provide micronutrient fortification, such as salt iodization or folic acid fortification | Part of GiveWell's 2015 'Charities we'd like to see' | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Ask for CE Research | 1 | |||||||||
32 | Provide immunizations campaigns for tetanus or measles | Part of GiveWell's 2015 'Charities we'd like to see' | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Ask for CE Research | 1 | |||||||||
33 | Provide mass drug administration for neglected tropical diseases other than deworming | Part of GiveWell's 2015 'Charities we'd like to see' | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Ask for CE Research | 1 | |||||||||
34 | Provide vitamin A supplements to areas with high rates of vitamin A deficiency and child mortality | Part of GiveWell's 2015 'Charities we'd like to see' | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Ask for CE Research | 1 | |||||||||
35 | Provide immunizations in areas with low coverage rates | Part of GiveWell's 2015 'Charities we'd like to see' | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Ask for CE Research | 1 | |||||||||
36 | Provide conditional cash transfers to encourage school attendance, clinic visits, etc. while also transferring wealth to low-income people | Part of GiveWell's 2015 'Charities we'd like to see' | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Ask for CE Research | 1 | |||||||||
37 | Create a facility for funding and implementing cash transfers as a control group | Part of GiveWell's 2015 'Charities we'd like to see' | Global Health | 3.9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Ask for CE Research | 1 | |||||||||
38 | Write a new book | Can be on EA, the history of EA, utilitarianism, philanthropy, or utopia. | Meta EA | 3.85 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | reputation risk for the topic of EA, important to have good communication | ||||||||||
39 | Movement-building for effective animal advocacy | Can include anti-factory farming | Animal Welfare | 3.85 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 0.75 | 0.5 | AAC? | 1 | |||||||||
40 | Organize EA events (workshop, conference) | Meta EA | 3.8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
41 | Run events for people in a particular cause or career path | Meta EA | 3.8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zFeSTVXqEr3qSrHdZV0oCxe8rnRD8w912lLw_tX1eoM/edit#heading=h.7lcmzn9405k9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
42 | Expert polling for everything | We think it would be great if it were easy to know the distribution of opinion from top experts on the questions within their expertise that are (a) most important and (b) the most common focal points of public debate. Model examples we like are the IGM Economic Experts Panel, and this survey by Grace et al. 2017. We’d love to see someone create and maintain panels like this spanning a variety of fields (including economics, philosophy, computer science, physics, biology, and history), and continually ask these panels important and interesting questions of this type. In the world where this project succeeds, “do the experts really believe X?” would no longer be the crux of any serious argument. Perhaps one could generate a sustainable business model where customers who want to know what experts really think are paying to generate this data. | Meta EA | 3.8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | need to define more | |||||||||
43 | More competition in the EA ecosystem | There are a number of organizations in the EA ecosystem that are doing good work, but we think more is possible and wonder if some additional competition would be healthy. For example, we’d be excited to see people try to make alternative versions of 80,000 Hours, CEA’s student groups work, CFAR, EA Funds, FHI, or GiveWell. We’d also be excited to see organizations that provide targeted career advice (for example, an organization that specializes in advice about careers in government, politics, or law). | Meta EA | 3.8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | need to define more | |||||||||
44 | Create a survey on x-risk | X-Risk | 3.8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1naWFNJGM9CtcqaRNLn6Hb3H1qYG83nAjb9WaKi3HsA4/edit# | 0.75 | 0.5 | 1 | |||||||||||
45 | Policy evaluation and forecasting | We’re interested in creative experiments with forecasting and policy evaluation. For example, we’re quite interested in the following idea: 1) Run periodic surveys with retrospective evaluations of policy. For example, each year we pick some policy decisions from ten, twenty, or thirty years ago and ask “Was this policy a mistake?”, “Did the government do too much, or too little?”, and so on. 2) Subsidize liquid prediction markets about the results of these surveys in all future years. For example, we can bet about people in 2045’s answers to “Did we do too much or too little about climate change in 2015 – 2025?” 3) We will get to see market odds on what people in 10, 20, or 30 years will say about our current policy decisions. For example, people arguing against a policy can cite facts like “The market expects that in 20 years we will consider this policy to have been a mistake.” We might start by running this kind of poll a few times; then opening a prediction market on next year’s poll about policy decisions from a few decades ago; then lengthening the time horizon. (Credit for this idea to a comment by Paul Christiano.) | Policy | 3.8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
46 | Infrastructure to recover after catastrophes | We want to ensure that humanity is in a position to recover from worst-case catastrophes. For example, we’d like to make sure that humanity has reliable access to the tools, resources, skills and knowledge necessary to rebuild industrial civilization if there were a global nuclear war or a worst-case global pandemic. We’d be especially keen to see “civilizational recovery drills”: attempts to rebuild key industrial technology with only the tools and knowledge available to survivors. | X-Risk | 3.8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
47 | Space governance research centre | Minimally, this could look like reaching out to people who seem to know a bit about space and a bit about the principles of longtermist EA, and hooking them into an informal network of researchers. | Meta EA | 3.75 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
48 | Create workshops on biosecurity or alternative protein | Meta EA | 3.75 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://www.notion.so/Projects-Categories-Page-c1c081a55c344e8fa2d4b275cf6fcf8a | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
49 | Cost-benefit analysis for everything | We’d be interested to see comprehensive and standardized cost-benefit analysis of all major categories of government spending and philanthropy, judged from an impartial perspective. We would be excited to fund an organization that does this kind of analysis for all programs that the federal government spends over 1% of its annual expenditures on, clearly presents the results, and then advocates for scaling spending up or down until marginal cost per unit benefit equalizes across programs. | Meta EA | 3.75 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
50 | EA ops | There are lots of exciting projects that could be launched in the EA/longtermist space (e.g., the ones on this page!). But they’re all bottlenecked on finding really capable operations staff. We’re not sure what the right solution is, and we’re open to all proposals. One idea might be to launch organizations that help provide relevant services: legal, immigration, HR, tax, managing office space, organizing events, etc. Another idea could be providing headhunting services to find people with relevant skills. Solutions here could unlock a lot of value, by substantially reducing the friction between having a good idea and building a new project. | Meta EA | 3.75 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | need to define more | |||||||||
51 | Communicate x-risk ideas to the general public | X-Risk | 3.75 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | ERO in The Netherlands, other countries? | 1 | ||||||||||
52 | Write an EA article for newspapers | Meta EA | 3.75 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tIJyzuGd_pmmY1Gdi9NTTuYKT9Nnda1-5SSNa1IkR14/edit# | 0.75 | 0.5 | Risky (?) | 1 | ||||||||||
53 | Create a PR agency for EA | Meta EA | 3.7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
54 | A fund for movies and documentaries | Participant Media has already demonstrated impact by funding movies such as Contagion and Countdown to Zero, and the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. We’d be interested in a project that funds and helps create new movies and documentaries—aimed squarely at raising public consciousness of issues relevant to our priority areas. We’d also directly fund impactful movies and documentaries ourselves. | Meta EA | 3.7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
55 | Keeping coal in the ground | We’d be excited to see a project that enables donors (governments and philanthropists) to easily buy coal mines and retire them. Other approaches to keeping fossil fuels in the ground interest us as well—re-industrialization after a civilizational collapse could be much harder if fossil fuels are scarce. | Climate change | 3.7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
56 | Make a map of EA | Meta EA | 3.7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/53Wcw73rav4rkQ4WM/ea-communication-project-ideas | 1 | 1 | With the goal to start a new meta charity | 1 | ||||||||||
57 | Create a test task database | collect a series of 3-5 hour “test tasks” or similar that people can do to test their fit for various roles. | Meta EA | 3.7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
58 | Identify future EAs | Spencer Greenberg suggested a project idea at the 2020 EA Student Summit that was: What traits (besides the obvious) differ most between EAs and non-EAs? Study these traits to yield predictions for what sort of people are likely to find the EA perspective appealing but just haven't heard about it yet. | Meta EA | 3.65 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | https://airtable.com/shrCXtRpCW1HxxafC/tblugqOktQp7zzxrm | 1 | 1 | Proto-EA identification in certain groups for outreach! | 1 | |||||||||
59 | Create GuidedTrack to discover EA concepts and find relevant resources | Meta EA | 3.65 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | https://www.guidedtrack.com/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
60 | Research why do people leave the EA community | Meta EA | 3.65 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
61 | A constitution for the future | We’d love to see workshops or a mock constitutional convention where sharp people think hard about how to structure international governance institutions for the long-term future, or how to govern space settlement. As explained in more detail on our areas of interest page, we believe that the onset of space settlement could be a watershed moment in human history. We want people to start thinking about how it should work. | Policy | 3.65 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
62 | Quadratic funding pools for EAs | Quadratic funding is an extremely neat method for allocating funding between different public goods, according to a collective decision-making procedure. In short, you have a pool of money and a group of people, each with their own personal pot of money. Each person can suggest and personally give to a proposed public good, and others can also give to that project according to how much they (would) value it. Then the quadratic finding rule decides how the larger pool gets spent, in the following way: for each project, take the sum of the square roots of each individual contribution, and square it. | Meta EA | 3.6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
63 | Institutional experimentation | We think it’s more likely for the best ideas to win out if there is more experimentation. For example, we’d be interested to see new political jurisdictions that try different experiments in governance. | Meta EA | 3.6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | need to define more | |||||||||
64 | Increasing diversity in EA | We think the effective altruism movement would benefit from a broader set of perspectives and experiences. We’re interested in proposals for increasing racial, gender, geographical, ideological, and educational diversity in EA. | Meta EA | 3.6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | need to define more | |||||||||
65 | Global Priorities Research reading group | Meta EA | 3.6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | https://airtable.com/shrCXtRpCW1HxxafC/tblugqOktQp7zzxrm | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
66 | Research cost-effectiveness of funding clean meat vs clean energy | This idea was suggested by Emma Abele, so contact her at emma2abele at gmail dot com if you are interested in this and she can give you more thoughts. | Climate Change | 3.6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | https://airtable.com/shrCXtRpCW1HxxafC/tblugqOktQp7zzxrm | 1 | 1 | Maybe broader, create a personal impact calculator | 1 | |||||||||
67 | Innovative educational experiments | We’re interested in bold experiments with new educational institutions, including new summer courses, schools, or colleges especially targeted at the most talented youths. We think there are a lot of ways existing institutions could be better: exceptionally able students could skip high school, one-on-one tutoring could be offered more readily, teacher compensation could be increased in order to recruit the very best teachers, and educational curricula could be redesigned to pay more attention to the most important problems and most useful tools for reasoning. | Education | 3.55 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
68 | Create a course on EA | Meta EA | 3.55 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | All in the details | 1 | |||||||||||
69 | Demonstrate the ability to rapidly scale food production in the case of nuclear winter | X-Risk | 3.55 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
70 | Talent search | We’re keen on finding and empowering the very most talented people in the world, especially those born into poverty in low-income countries. Imagine a program that finds outstandingly gifted adolescents, wherever they may be, and then offers them full scholarships to attend accelerated academic programs with a hybrid of high school and college coursework. By age seventeen, these youths might be pushing forward the frontiers of their fields—thereby addressing the most important problems for the future of humanity. | Meta EA | 3.55 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
71 | Create a podcast on EA | Meta EA | 3.5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1naWFNJGM9CtcqaRNLn6Hb3H1qYG83nAjb9WaKi3HsA4/edit# | 1 | 1 | All in the details | 1 | ||||||||||
72 | Create a new impact evaluation org | Meta EA | 3.5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://www.notion.so/Projects-Categories-Page-c1c081a55c344e8fa2d4b275cf6fcf8a | 1 | 1 | Yes, especially for meta orgs | 1 | ||||||||||
73 | Do an evaluation of different organisation’s effectiveness in a particular area | Meta EA | 3.5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zFeSTVXqEr3qSrHdZV0oCxe8rnRD8w912lLw_tX1eoM/edit#heading=h.7lcmzn9405k9 | http://effective-altruism.com/ea/14w/2017_ai_risk_literature_review_and_charity/ | 1 | 1 | Especially meta | 1 | |||||||||
74 | Create a documentary on MIRI, FHI, CSER, FLI and GCRI. | X-Risk | 3.5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
75 | Summarize prolific EA authors | "The collected works of (famous intellectual)" | Meta EA | 3.5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/53Wcw73rav4rkQ4WM/ea-communication-project-ideas | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
76 | Book summaries | Case study of impactful person or organisation - eg wait but why on musk, 80k on borlaug | Meta EA | 3.5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zFeSTVXqEr3qSrHdZV0oCxe8rnRD8w912lLw_tX1eoM/edit#heading=h.7lcmzn9405k9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
77 | Recruit campaign managers, political strategist, think tankers, and lobbyists to EA | Meta EA | 3.45 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
78 | Recruit media personalities to promote EA | Meta EA | 3.45 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
79 | The GiveWell for medical research funding | the Global Priorities Project suggests might be cost-effective use of funds | Meta EA | 3.45 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | http://globalprioritiesproject.org/2015/02/research-note-how-valuable-is-medical-research/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
80 | Study alternative foods in case of climate change or nuclear winter | X-Risk | 3.45 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
81 | An EA Summer camp | Meta EA | 3.4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
82 | Rationalist mini-camps for 11-15 year olds | Meta EA | 3.4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
83 | Create a conditional cash transfer charity | Global Health | 3.35 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
84 | Research wild animal questions | Animal Welfare | 3.35 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | https://www.notion.so/EA-Summit-Project-Ideas-62dafc9a24034cd18d979caab3654168 | 1 | 1 | Before starting a charity | 1 | ||||||||||
85 | Pedant, infrastructure for Cost Effectiveness Analysis | Pedant is a math DSL for cost effectiveness analysis, designed to make it easier to do better analysis and contribute and collaborate on large analysis. It includes dimensional checking and uncertainty | Meta EA | 3.35 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tu48u7UVSd3bTRhVEiIcu0WP3oXRcZ8JugCrUdbjj9Y/edit#gid=7 | https://github.com/Hazelfire/pedant | 0.75 | 1 | 0.5 | Too technical for me | ||||||||
86 | Create a think tank | contact kerry.l.vaughan@gmail.com about this | Policy | 3.3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | Although cause prio and personal fit needs to be spot on! | 1 | |||||||||
87 | Advocate for real estate reform | to reduce rent and living cost in international capitals | Policy | 3.3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
88 | Advocacy for US high-skill immigration | We think there’s room for a bipartisan consensus that high-skill immigrants benefit the United States and the global economy. We’d be excited to see new think tanks, grassroots campaigns, and other approaches to forging this consensus. And we’d love to see creative approaches, such as executive action that widens the criteria for the O-1 visa, to enable more high-skilled immigration to the US | Policy | 3.3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
89 | Science policy think tank | Start an organization dedicated to bringing together great scientists and great policy analysts, in order to develop and promote the best possible proposals for improving science policy and infrastructure. | Policy | 3.3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CBYddAHPR5_tNXJWO4YA1anyfsyo-cR2116gjATQI1I/edit?usp=drive_web&ouid=110481670341808940614 | 1 | 1 | First tangible first step needs to be defined | 1 | |||||||||
90 | Research on most resilient countries in case of nuclear war | X-Risk | 3.3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | André | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
91 | Advocacy to reduce the suffering of insects | Animal Welfare | 3.3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 0.75 | 0.5 | 1 | |||||||||||
92 | Advocacy on the importance of nonhuman welfare like biosperming or digital sentience | Meta EA | 3.3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 0.75 | 0.5 | 1 | |||||||||||
93 | Alternative voting systems | We’re excited about civic advocacy for alternative voting systems, like approval voting. | Policy | 3.25 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
94 | Early detection center | By the time we find out about novel pathogens, they’ve already spread far and wide, as we saw with Covid-19. Earlier detection would increase the amount of time we have to respond to biothreats. Moreover, existing systems are almost exclusively focused on known pathogens—we could do a lot better by creating pathogen-agnostic systems that can detect unknown pathogens. We’d like to see a system that collects samples from wastewater or travelers, for example, and then performs a full metagenomic scan for anything that could be dangerous. | X-Risk | 3.25 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
95 | Rapid development and approval of emergency vaccination and therapeutics | Imagine a team of high-powered vaccine developers, large-scale manufacturing capability on standby, and ready-to-go infrastructure for rapid human challenge trials in a regulatorily compliant manner. For any new pathogen, this team would be able to develop, test, and produce hundreds of millions of vaccine doses within weeks or months. We are very excited about that prospect. More generally, we are interested in projects that build and massively scale our civilization’s capacity to deploy medical countermeasures against biological threats. | X-Risk | 3.25 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | https://ftxfuturefund.org/projects/ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
96 | Advocacate for tax deductibility status for EA charities | Meta EA | 3.2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | Done by Doneereffectief in The Netherlands, could be done in more countries | 1 | ||||||||||
97 | Create an EA lobby group | Meta EA | 3.2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
98 | Creat a tool to enable people to live their favorite ethical values | Meta EA | 3.2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
99 | Buying back book rights | 10 years after the publication of Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save, the organisation of the same name bought back the copyrights to the book. As a result, they could distribute the book for free, and record and release a free (and star-studded) audiobook. As I understand it, some of the legal/administrative aspects of the deal posed a major and time-consuming difficulty. But the difficulty per book will decrease the more books we do this for (assuming there are ways to learn from and systematise the process). So perhaps we should try doing this for more books for which it would be really valuable to hand out free copies (or hand out physical copies with much less hassle). | Meta EA | 3.15 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8ic7KcxyfchhmGP3x/ea-projects-i-d-like-to-see | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
100 | A fundraising service for EA birthday campaigns | Meta EA | 3.15 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Hzde8wgfSUO2ij0lAUxztNsOM03RxD9plo5HaaXUmk/edit# | 1 | 1 | Floris Wolswijk ? | 1 | ||||||||||