You can temporarily donate to my past covid work tax-deductibley via Manifund’s EA Community Choice. Deadline: 8/31.
In my previous fundraising post I mentioned that an intention to post future projects on Manifund, a sort of non-profit GoFundMe. Shortly after that Manifund invited me to apply for retroactive funding as part of their Effective Altrusim Community Choice event. I feel a little weird about this because I explicitly quit EA, but this kind of crowdfunding doesn’t feel like it jeopardizes my epistemics as long as I provide that context.
The Manifund website says all donations are tax-deductible. I have not tested this and won’t be shocked if there are complications, but it is definitely more likely to be tax deductible than paypal.
I don’t remember seeing this mentioned before, or your reasoning, though I can guess reasonably well from the caveat that follows. Was this written up on the EA Forum or LessWrong or somewhere?
The big legible, easily defensible is covered in EA Vegan Advocacy is not truthseeking, and it’s everyone’s problem. The explicit resignation was on a locked FB post- making a big public thing in the forum I was leaving seemed, at best, likely to involve me in more of exactly what I was trying to get away from.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qF4yhMMuavCFrLqfz/ea-vegan-advocacy-is-not-truthseeking-and-it-s-everyone-s
Yeah, that makes sense. Probably would have seen it myself if I ever checked Facebook anymore.
I was curious enough to log in and check, and it didn’t show up any time in 2023-2024 (probably because Facebook hates archive browsing). If it’s merely friends-locked, then I’d appreciate a link to it; I should hopefully be recognizable as the person who added a ‘love’ react to a year-old post today in the course of scrolling through, so you could send it in an FB message rather than post it publicly.
Feel free to delete this comment immediately, either way.