“Visualizing EA ideas” by Alex Savard 🔸

Summary

The written word dominates EA discourse but visuals have a unique power in communicating ideas that seems quite underleveraged in this community. As a designer and communicator in the space, I wanted to share some of the presentations and visualizations I’ve created over the years in hopes that they might be helpful to others. My goal isn't to present these visuals as "ready-to-use" resources—for various reasons they're not ready (see disclaimers)—but rather as references that hopefully inspire others to create and invest in visual forms of communication.

Effective Giving 101 (2023)

In 2023, when I was director of design at Giving What We Can, we were invited to give a talk at Microsoft about effective giving. We normally don’t dive so deep into the research that undergirds our recommendations but—given the highly-educated, highly-analytical audience at Microsoft—I thought it could be compelling to actually get into the weeds and [...]

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Outline:

(00:16) Summary

(00:50) Effective Giving 101 (2023)

(01:53) Full deck: Doing Good Better (Microsoft 2023)

(02:00) GiveWell's 2020 analysis of AMF

(02:58) Slides: GiveWell's 2020 analysis of AMF

(03:15) Global income illustration

(04:53) Slides: The Global Income Distribution

(05:09) Prioritization in GCR (2024)

(05:56) Parfit's 99% extinction hypothetical

(06:56) Slides: Parfit's 99% v 100%

(07:13) Mapping the GCR landscape

(08:54) Slides: Visualizing: The GCR Landscape

(09:13) Bonus: Effective Giving Strategy Frameworks

(10:20) Vision to Vectors

(10:23) Slides: Vision to Vectors

(10:39) The Pledger Journey

(10:42) Slides: The Pledger Journey

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First published:
October 31st, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GuFxEPcn7rzz4pDhw/visualizing-ea-ideas

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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