“What if the third wave is a puddle?” by Morgan Fairless
The world of private philanthropy may be in for a period of large growth. News of Coefficient Giving increasing their funding for GiveWell to one billion in the near-term, and the general growth of th...
18 Aug 9min
“What would make us scale or stop? NOVAH’s pre-commitment before seeing the RCT results” by I.J.J., AlexisAt
TL;DR NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing intimate partner violence through edutainment, in our ca...
17 Aug 15min
“General capability - and capabilities generally - have no good y-axis” by Gregory Lewis🔸
BLUF: To determine whether AI is ‘improving exponentially’, ‘hitting the wall’, or any other claim which involves a quantity or magnitude (e.g. ‘This model was a big leap/small increment’). We need a...
8 Aug 1h 7min
“Never born, then maybe died twice” by NickLaing
“Your balls are baked aren’t they, mate”. He would not have been bornThanks Lyndon, that describes the situation. Like almost 1 in 10 modern men, my sperm weren’t up to the task - at least not the old...
1 Aug 10min
“Spiro: an update 2.5 years on and a fundraising ask for expansion” by Habiba Banu
Summary Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first 198 thousand dollars. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step. The short version...
26 Juli 17min
“Let’s taboo the V-word” by lincolnq
“How long have you been v*g*n?” This is one of the most common icebreakers at animal protection events. It's a baseline assumption, and it mostly holds true: if you’re out advocating for animals not t...
14 Juli 12min
“Giving What We Can’s first YouTube Video is out now!” by JustinPortela
Hello! I'm Justin Portela. I got hired by GWWC to make YouTube videos after AI in Context did such a kickass job. My channel is using that same cinematic, high-production value beauty to talk about e...
9 Juli 1min
