“Rethink Priorities needs your support. Here’s what we’d do with it.” by Peter Wildeford

In honor of “Marginal Funding Week” for 2023 Giving Season on the EA Forum, I’d like to tell you what Rethink Priorities (RP) would do with funding beyond what we currently expect to raise from our major funders, and to emphasize that RP currently has a significant funding gap even after taking these major funders into account.A personal appealHi. I know it's traditional in EA to stick to the facts and avoid emotional content, but I can’t help but interject and say that this fundraising appeal is a bit different. It is personal to me. It's not just a list of things that we could take or leave, it's a fight for RP to survive the way I want it to as an organization that is intellectually independent and serves the EA community.To be blunt, our funding situation is not where we want it to be. 2023 has been a [...] ---Outline:(07:00) General(07:03) $1K - $10K per research work to allow us to publish our backlog of research(11:29) Worldview Investigations(11:33) $200K to do cause prioritization research and build on the cross-cause model(14:27) $500K to do more worldview cause exploration(14:58) Surveys and Data Analysis(15:02) $60K to run the next EA Survey(16:01) $40K-100K to more rigorously understand branding for EA and existential risk(17:56) $25K-$100K to more rigorously understand EA's growth trajectory(18:53) $40K to more rigorously understand branding for AI risk outreach(19:35) $50K to more rigorously understand why people drop out of EA(20:03) Animal welfare(21:17) $250K to create a review of interventions to reduce the consumption of animal products(22:10) $38K to create a Farmed Animals Impact Tracker(23:09) $60K to understand interventions that would address crustacean welfare(23:39) $50K for development and implementation of an insect farming welfare ask(24:32) $100K to develop a database of possible near-term interventions for wild animals(25:15) $75K to do a theory of change status report for the animal advocacy movement(26:13) $300K to develop a better system similar to QALYs/DALYs but for animals(27:18) Global Health and Development(27:22) $405K to pilot our Value of Research model(29:21) AI Governance(29:25) $15K to write up learnings from spending a year attempting longtermist incubation(30:07) $114K to train an additional AI policy researcher(31:05) Included with your donation: talent pipelines and field building(33:45) Conclusion(36:19) Acknowledgements--- First published: November 21st, 2023 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cMcEBSNiy4meDrmuE/rethink-priorities-needs-your-support-here-s-what-we-d-do --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.