Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Should you become a charity entrepreneur? (with Joey Savoie)

Apr 19, 2023

01:09:06

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Dual Line Pressure of Charity Incentives

2min

The Consequences of Large Charities

2min

The Value of Y Combinator for Charities

2min

How to Start a Charity

2min

The Difference Between Startup Success and Charity Success

3min

How to Be a Successful Charity Founder

2min

The Different Types of Effective Altruism

2min

The Diversification of Value Systems in Effective Altruism

2min

10.

The Flavor of Utilitarianism in Philosophy

2min

11.

How to Pick the Right Causes for Your Charity

4min

12.

The Importance of Diversifying Your Cause Area

3min

13.

The Disadvantages of Diversifying Ideas

2min

14.

The Importance of Expected Value Theory

3min

15.

The Importance of Sandboxing Expected Value

2min

16.

How to Improve Speculative Value Theory

2min

17.

The Three H's Helping Happiness and Health

2min

18.

The Trade-Offs of Helping People

2min

19.

The Importance of Happiness

3min

20.

The Importance of Objective Moral Truth

2min

21.

The Importance of Self-Identity

2min

22.

The Three Main Drivers of Ethical Behavior in Humans

4min

23.

The Social Resilience of Altruism

2min

24.

The Importance of Social Resilience

2min

25.

The EA Movement's Lessons Learned From the FTX Disaster

3min

26.

The Evolution of the EA Movement

3min

27.

The Importance of Probability in Decision Making

2min

28.

The Importance of Foundation Entrepreneurship

2min

29.

How to Be an Effective Altruist

2min

30.

How to Know if You're Marrying the Right Person

3min

Read the full transcript here.

What is charity entrepreneurship? What sorts of incentives pull charities away from their stated goals? Why is Effective Altruism even a thing when it's already the case that most charities probably try to be as effective as they can be and probably use evidence of some kind to move towards that end? How diverse are the value systems in the EA movement? To what extent should charity funders diversify? Under what conditions does expected value theory break down? Is it possible to be too altruistic? Have too many EA orgs moved away from more traditional, near-term causes to pursue long-term causes? How frequently should charities switch projects? What is foundation entrepreneurship? What's the best advice to give to a non-EA person who wants to do some amount of good in the world?

Joey Savoie wants to make the biggest positive difference in the world that he can. His mission is to cause more effective charities to exist in the world by connecting talented individuals with high-impact intervention opportunities. To achieve this, he co-founded Charity Entrepreneurship, an organization that launches effective charities through an extensive research process and incubation program. Prior to Charity Entrepreneurship, he co-founded Charity Science, a meta-organization that increased the amount of counterfactual funding going to high-impact charities. Subsequently, he co-founded Charity Science Health, a nonprofit that increases vaccination rates in India using mobile phones and behavioral nudges. He has given lectures on various aspects of charity entrepreneurship and Effective Altruism in Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, EAG London, EAG San Francisco, Berlin, Basel, Vancouver, Stockholm, and Oslo. Learn more about Charity Entrepreneurship here, and learn more about Joey here.

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