I’m not sure either, but here’s my current model: Even though it looks pretty likely that AISC is an improvement on no-AISC, there are very few potential funders: 1) EA-adjacent caritative organizations. 2) People from AIS/rat communities.
Now, how to explain their decisions? For the former, my guess would be a mix of not having heard of/received an application from AISC and preferring to optimize heavily towards top-rated charities. AISC’s work is hard to quantify, as you can tell from the most upvoted comments, and that’s a problem when you’re looking for projects to invest because you need to avoid being criticized for that kind of choice if it turns out AISC is crackpotist/a waste of funds. The Copenhagen interpretation of ethics applies hard there for an opponent with a tooth against the organization. For the latter, it depends a lot on individual people, but here are the possibilities that come to mind: - Not wanting donate anything but feeling like having to, which leads to large donations to few projects when you feel like donating enough to break the status quo bias. - Being especially mindful of one’s finances and donating only to preferred charities, because of a personal attachment (again, not likely to pick AISC a priori) or because they’re provably effective.
To answer 2), you can say why you don’t donate to AISC? Your motivations are probably very similar to other potential donators here.
I don’t really get why this wouldn’t get funded.
I’m not sure either, but here’s my current model:
Even though it looks pretty likely that AISC is an improvement on no-AISC, there are very few potential funders:
1) EA-adjacent caritative organizations.
2) People from AIS/rat communities.
Now, how to explain their decisions?
For the former, my guess would be a mix of not having heard of/received an application from AISC and preferring to optimize heavily towards top-rated charities. AISC’s work is hard to quantify, as you can tell from the most upvoted comments, and that’s a problem when you’re looking for projects to invest because you need to avoid being criticized for that kind of choice if it turns out AISC is crackpotist/a waste of funds. The Copenhagen interpretation of ethics applies hard there for an opponent with a tooth against the organization.
For the latter, it depends a lot on individual people, but here are the possibilities that come to mind:
- Not wanting donate anything but feeling like having to, which leads to large donations to few projects when you feel like donating enough to break the status quo bias.
- Being especially mindful of one’s finances and donating only to preferred charities, because of a personal attachment (again, not likely to pick AISC a priori) or because they’re provably effective.
To answer 2), you can say why you don’t donate to AISC? Your motivations are probably very similar to other potential donators here.