Update a big list of "cause candidates" [^1]: cause areas or interventions that could potentially be very effective, but that haven't yet been researched.
[^1]: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SCqRu6shoa8ySvRAa/big-list-of-cause-candidates
Goals: Have an up-to-date list of potential cause areas. Secondary goal: make it more maintainable and accessible; use a git filesystem instead of a forum post.
How will they be achieved: By putting in the time and skill.
Salary
David Rivadeneira will lead this. I (Nuño) will lightly manage this.
NA. Given potential for future collaboration, failure is still informative.
None.
Austin Chen
12 months ago
Approving as a simple research project which could help projects go well.
FWIW, I'm more skeptical than Nuno that work of the form "make large lists of project ideas" is useful, as execution (not ideas) are almost always the bottleneck. But as usual, happy to be proven wrong!
Nuño Sempere
12 months ago
Project has some value, may have influenced organizations like Charity Entrepreneurship
Project has some learning value as well
None.
Negotiation with project lead based on expected number of hours.
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