I don’t think there exist effective channels for big, abstract issues. Any useful intervention must be specific and targeted. You MAY be able to find some “lynchpin” specific issues to work on (or fund), which will shift the larger equilibria and make some progress on the larger issues, but even then the actions are on a specific.
This is compounded by difficulty in measuring or observing changes in the abstract, so such charities tend to drift based on Goodhart’s law toward visible-but-ineffective projects.
My recommendation is to pick a specific tyranny that you think can be marginally improved with your effort. Keep your eyes open for others, or for ways to increase the scope of impact, but stay specific in your goals.
Any useful intervention must be specific and targeted.
I did not mean to suggest I was looking for a charity labeled something like “The Tyranny Prevention Center”; rather, I was looking for something that is to anti-tyranny efforts as the AMF is to global health and development efforts.
Probably supporting Assange in some way? Relative to the forces arranged against him, and almost exclusively focused on his single individual, even moving his future prospects by a fraction of a percent would probably count as a huge win.
Maybe there is a much meeker individual with slightly less potent forces arrayed against them, which would be the only possibility of an even larger disparity, but I can’t think of any examples.
I don’t think there exist effective channels for big, abstract issues. Any useful intervention must be specific and targeted. You MAY be able to find some “lynchpin” specific issues to work on (or fund), which will shift the larger equilibria and make some progress on the larger issues, but even then the actions are on a specific.
This is compounded by difficulty in measuring or observing changes in the abstract, so such charities tend to drift based on Goodhart’s law toward visible-but-ineffective projects.
My recommendation is to pick a specific tyranny that you think can be marginally improved with your effort. Keep your eyes open for others, or for ways to increase the scope of impact, but stay specific in your goals.
I did not mean to suggest I was looking for a charity labeled something like “The Tyranny Prevention Center”; rather, I was looking for something that is to anti-tyranny efforts as the AMF is to global health and development efforts.
Probably supporting Assange in some way? Relative to the forces arranged against him, and almost exclusively focused on his single individual, even moving his future prospects by a fraction of a percent would probably count as a huge win.
Maybe there is a much meeker individual with slightly less potent forces arrayed against them, which would be the only possibility of an even larger disparity, but I can’t think of any examples.