“After they were launched, I got a marketing email from 80,000 Hours saying something like, “Now, a more effective way to give.” (I’ve lost the exact email, so I might be misremembering the wording.) This is not a response to demand, it is an attempt to create demand by using 80,000 Hours’s authority, telling people that the funds are better than what they’re doing already. ”
I write the 80,000 Hours newsletter and it hasn’t yet mentioned EA Funds. It would be good if you could correct that.
Hmm. There are enough partially overlapping things called the EA Newsletter that I’m raising my prior that I’m just confused and conflating things. I’ll just retract that bit entirely—it’s not crucial to my point anyway. But, sorry for bringing 80K in where I shouldn’t have.
That’s actually much better than I remembered. My current best guess as to what happened is that an email with a briefer description linked to a promotional page (maybe just the EA Funds site) that used something like the unqualified “more effective way to give” language, and I misremembered this as part of the text of the email. I’m glad I initially tagged this memory as potentially unreliable!
“After they were launched, I got a marketing email from 80,000 Hours saying something like, “Now, a more effective way to give.” (I’ve lost the exact email, so I might be misremembering the wording.) This is not a response to demand, it is an attempt to create demand by using 80,000 Hours’s authority, telling people that the funds are better than what they’re doing already. ”
I write the 80,000 Hours newsletter and it hasn’t yet mentioned EA Funds. It would be good if you could correct that.
Hmm. There are enough partially overlapping things called the EA Newsletter that I’m raising my prior that I’m just confused and conflating things. I’ll just retract that bit entirely—it’s not crucial to my point anyway. But, sorry for bringing 80K in where I shouldn’t have.
Is this what you were remembering? https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/march-2017-ea-newsletter/
It looks pretty balanced to me.
That’s actually much better than I remembered. My current best guess as to what happened is that an email with a briefer description linked to a promotional page (maybe just the EA Funds site) that used something like the unqualified “more effective way to give” language, and I misremembered this as part of the text of the email. I’m glad I initially tagged this memory as potentially unreliable!
I got something from CEA but maybe it wasn’t 80K. Will correct. Thanks for catching this.