EA - Announcing Amplify creative grants by finm

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing Amplify creative grants, published by finm on October 3, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. We're announcing a small grants program for creative media, supported by Hear This Idea and the FTX Future Fund regranting program. Over the next few months, we’re aiming to make grants to podcasts and other creative media projects that spread ideas to help humanity navigate this century. We’re interested in applications that look to cover topics related to (i) reducing existential risk, (ii) helping fix pressing global problems, and (iii) putting humanity on a positive long-term trajectory. More details on all three below. We want to amplify ideas associated with effective altruism and longtermism, but you don’t need to be actively engaged with effective altruism to apply. We’re excited to support projects (new and existing) in English and other languages — sharing important ideas with new, global, audiences. If you are unsure whether your idea fits among the areas we outline below, please lean toward applying— we want to hear your ideas! The form is a single page of questions, and should easily take less than an hour. The first batch of grants will be approved around three weeks after this announcement. After that, we’ll approve grants on a rolling basis. Let us know if you have a deadline you need to hear back by, and we’ll do our best to accommodate and get back very quickly if necessary. If you have any questions which aren’t answered below, please contact us on [email protected]. You can apply now by following this link. We want to support podcasts and other media with a plan for impact We are interested in supporting podcasts and other creative media projects, new and existing, which care about: Reducing (existential) risks this century: We’d love to see podcasts sharing knowledge relevant for reducing risks from AI, biosecurity, and other global catastrophes. We can also imagine projects that focus on methods and infrastructure for mitigating global risks, like forecasting or evidence-informed policymaking. Helping fix global problems: We want to see more media exploring how to make progress on the world’s most pressing problems, and reduce suffering in the world today. Topics might include: reducing factory farming, neglected issues in global health and wellbeing, or wild animal suffering. Putting humanity on a positive long-term trajectory: We are excited by projects that look to help inform the following questions: How could we positively influence humanity’s future if we make it through this century? How can we think about sharing a world with AI systems smarter than humans? What values should guide our future? What political institutions could help us collectively think over long time horizons? We want to support projects about —or relevant to— important problems. But we’re especially excited about applicants who have thought carefully about how their project could actually help make progress on these problems. Here are some ways that an impactful podcast or creative media project might do that: Field building: Several emerging research fields are oriented around the principles of effective altruism (like global priorities research, AI alignment and strategy, or welfare biology). A communication project focused on one of these (sub-)fields could help distill existing work, and inspire more of it. Advocacy: Advocacy makes most sense when you have an audience in mind. A project that has access to a small but select audience (for example policymakers, entrepreneurs, or academics in an impactful field) can have impact through changing minds on important topics. Information: Even once someone is convinced of the importance of a pressing problem, they still need to be well informed about it in order to make well-motivated decisions. But it’s often di...