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David Corfield 🔸

Founder & Executive Director @ Original Position
56 karmaJoined Working (6-15 years)London, UK
www.original-position.org
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Effective givingBuilding effective altruismImpact assessment

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I believe this is the most important century for humanity. Without improving the political-economic systems that continue to concentrate wealth and power, transformative AI could accelerate us into dystopia within our lifetimes. My mission is to build the tools and develop the leaders we need to bring about an equitable, fulfilled future world.

Previously
Executive Director @ The AI Governance Archive (Funded by the LTFF)
Co-founder & ED @ The Small Business School Challenge
Co-founder & CEO @ LifeWork

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Introducing Original Position: A New Approach to Effective Giving
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Thanks, Nithin! I'll make the instructions clearer. For the demo, you need to adopt a 'persona' that is within the target demographic to go through the experience from their perspective. Would it help to provide some realistic financial info to input for this persona (i.e., income of $200k, expenses of $5k/month) or was it simply the lack of instruction that you needed to do this that caused the confusion? 

And yes, adding videos/images is definitely on the roadmap to explore, with some hesitancies including the risk of emotional manipulation. There's research on visual media increasing prosocial behaviour, for example, the "watching eyes effect" where "laboratory and field experiments have shown that people are more likely to be prosocial in the presence of watching eyes images". The intellectual honesty/emotional manipulation of such interventions isn't my area of expertise, so I'd be very grateful for any input from this community on heuristics for evaluating them.

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