“Navigating Uncertainty: How Rethink Priorities Can Help With Impact” by kierangreig🔸, Rethink Priorities

Introduction As Chief Strategy Officer at Rethink Priorities, I am sometimes asked to share information with those interested in supporting or collaborating with us, or just wanting to learn more about us, so that they can understand the nature of our work, our motivations, and some of our past projects. This post intends to provide an accessible high-level overview, including some key uncertainties and considerations that help drive our approach, along with some select examples of our work, which overall may serve as a useful reference. Fundamentally, Rethink Priorities (RP) works to do good at scale, but we’re not committed to advancing any particular type of good or limited to a specific approach. In this piece, we will briefly lay out some of the uncertainties people face when trying to do good, which are some of the motivating factors for our approach. Key uncertainties include (a) limited [...] ---Outline:(00:09) Introduction(02:47) On the uncertainties(04:28) Our approach applied: Some examples of impact(04:33) How RP embraces uncertainty(05:23) Example 1: Aligning donors’ decisions with their values while accounting for moral uncertainty(06:24) How RP works with decision-makers(08:46) Example 3: Broadening moral circles(10:12) How RP supports field building(10:51) Example 4: Escalating the importance of shrimp welfare within the animal advocacy field(12:23) Reflections and looking forward(13:45) AcknowledgmentsThe original text contained 3 images which were described by AI. --- First published: October 2nd, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hqqcBA2QSHeJxHmjz/navigating-uncertainty-how-rethink-priorities-can-help-with --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.