Rahi Impact ... we expect to launch in May 2025.

Have you considering launching asap (eg. next month)?

I could be wrong, but Rahi Impact seems quite similar to a tech startup, and one of the best pieces of advice for most startups is to launch as soon as possible.

Thank you so much for the context 💛

My raw thoughts (apologies for the low quality):

• I think the target audience should be high earners who are already donating >=10% of their income. (Getting people from 0% to 10% would not be in the scope of the charity. I think GWWC is already doing a great job)
• The two main goals:
  • Motivate people to increase their donations (from 10% to 20% is probably much easier than from 0% to 10%)
  • Help people significantly increase their earnings through networking, coaching, financial advice, tax optimization, etc.
• One of the most valuable things for the charity to do would be to help with networking
• This could be a very small charity (1 or 2 people)

GWWC is looking into this a bit

Nice! Makes a lot of sense!

Personal anecdote:

• I was donating 10% until I met a highly ambitious EA who made me realize I could be doing much more.
• I'm looking for a job right now. I'm sure there are multiple software engineer EAs who would be happy to help me (eg. with interview advice), but there's no easy way to connect.
• I would like to help early-career SWEs, but only if they are ambitious about EA and aim to donate >10% of their income. There's no easy way for me to find them.

Founding to Give is great but it's only for (potential) entrepreneurs.

Anthropic has just launched "computer use". "developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do".

https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

Ilya's Safe Superintelligence Inc. has raised $1B.

Thanks for doing this, Ben!

Regarding the Founding to Give program:

• Did you get many applicants?
• What are their backgrounds?
• What percentage of the selected candidates are technical?
• What kind of profiles would you have liked to see more of?

This made my day 💛

Excited to see if it can match or even surpass the most successful EA podcast of all time.

By becoming a nonprofit entrepreneur you will build robust career capital and reach an impact equivalent to $338,000-414,000 donated* to the best charities in the world every year (e.g., GiveWell top charities)! If you do exceptionally well, we estimate that your impact can grow to $1M in annual counterfactual donations. This makes nonprofit entrepreneurship one of the most impactful jobs you could take!
*This calculation represents our most accurate estimate as of June 2023. It is based on assessing the average impact of charities we have launched and considers the counterfactual contributions of our co-founders—how much additional impact they have compared to what they would have achieved in another impactful role.

Have you done this calculation for animal welfare founders?

John Schulman (OpenAI co-founder) has left OpenAI to work on AI alignment at Anthropic.

https://x.com/johnschulman2/status/1820610863499509855

Thanks for the post!

“Something must be done. This is something. Therefore this must be done.”

1. Have you seen grants that you are confident are not a good use of EA's money?

2. If so, do you think that if the grantmakers had asked for your input, you would have changed their minds about making the grant?

3. Do you think Open Philanthropy (and other grantmakers) should have external grant reviewers?