Which of the charities on https://manifold.markets/charity will I judge most effective and therefore choose to donate to? Obviously the purpose of this market is to help myself and others make a more effective choice so comments and discussion are of course welcome.
Here is some context about my beliefs/opinions:
- I'm an effective altruist
- I tend towards high-EV opportunities even if they have higher uncertainty/variance (i.e. GiveWell is great but I don't limit myself to high-evidence opportunities only)
- I care about the long-term future
- I focus on humans (not animals)
Also note:
- It is possible that new charities will be suggested and added and then I might choose one of those.
- I may choose to donate to multiple charities, in which case this will resolve based on my percentage allocation.
Next I'll probably also set up some sort of market on "which of these charities will be judged most effective by some external assessment/criteria" but I'll have to think about how to set up the resolution criteria for that.
Apr 30, 3:13pm: Note that since I talked with Manifold folks today they've already added EA funds and a few others! Also, I think this market would be more useful if it was less about Manifold's existing list of charities and more about what charities we should put on the list. Based on the very fast response time I am very confident that more new charities that do well on this market will be added!
💬 Proven correct
Jack bought M$125 days ago
If I decide I like any charities that are not currently supported by Manifold, I will definitely suggest adding them!
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Jack bought M$125 days ago
If I decide I like any charities that are not currently supported by Manifold, I will definitely suggest adding them!
Jack C answered25 days ago
QURI
16%
Jack C answered25 days ago
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
6%
Tetraspace bought M$925 days ago
For engineered pandemic xrisks
Tetraspace answered25 days ago
ALLFED
6%
Tetraspace bought M$1025 days ago
The only direct x-risk mitigation charity that's currently on there.
Jack bought M$125 days ago
On second thought, I think this market would be more useful if it was less about Manifold's existing list of charities and more about what charities we should put on the list. To that end, I will note that since I talked with them this morning they've already added EA funds and a few others!
Jack C answered25 days ago
Malaria Consortium
5%
Jack bought M$125 days ago
Malaria Consortium is currently GiveWell's top charity, based on the fact that it is listed first on https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities and also that it received the highest amount of the recent grant from GiveWell's Maximum Impact Fund. So I consider this a strong "baseline" contender.
Jack answered23 days ago
GiveWell
1.4%
Jack C answered25 days ago
World Resources Institute
0.4%
Jack C answered25 days ago
ProPublica
0.3%
Jack C answered25 days ago
GiveDirectly
0.3%
General Comments
I appreciate everyone's suggestions, comments, and trades in this and my related markets!
Based on the discussion here, my current top choice remains the Long Term Future Fund (which was added shortly after I suggested it in this market).
It's interesting to note that the Long Term Future Fund was one of the funders of Manifold. Given that I think LTFF is my top charity identified so far, donating M$ back to them ends up being approximately net neutral. I am inclined to believe that the most effective use of M$ is on Manifold itself, towards developing better forecasting and using that to improve the world. Of course, as a relatively active user of Manifold I'm probably biased towards believing in the value of forecasting.
A few comments on some of the runner ups discussed here:
I also like QURI as a forecasting-focused research organization, for the same reason I like Manifold.
I like The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and ALLFED for similar reasons as I like LTFF, but I don't feel qualified to evaluate them based on my limited research so far, so I defer to the LTFF's expertise.
Comparing LTFF to the the global health and development space (GiveWell etc): It is very hard to directly compare this cause area to global development, but some surveys at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/nws5pai9AB6dCQqxq/how-are-resources-in-effective-altruism-allocated-across indicate that the Effective Altruism community thinks global health/development is currently the most overweighted area of investment and the long-term future area is the most underweighted. This isn't to say that global health/development isn't important, but that it's relatively much better recognized, and that longtermist causes may be most neglected and therefore contributions there have strong potential impact. Also, I think there's a significant chance that work in this area will be important and impactful in the next few decades, not just the far future.
That's right, that was my intended interpretation.
My interpretation of the question is which you will think is most effective at the time of resolution, so valid options include anything that will be added to the list betveen now and then, taking into account that Manifold staff can view this market.