Please consider donating
We spend around $600 per month on the Reddit and Discord bots + Chrome and Firefox extensions (music recognition costs a lot to run!). We would appreciate your help. If the community supports the bots at least partially, it would be much easier for us to continue to operate them.
If you're able to support us so our bots and extensions keep working, please donate via Patreon: patreon.com/audd.
Thank you!
Or, if you know someone who might want to use API to identify music, please give them a link to audd.io. That'd also be very helpful!
We also want to advocate for donating to highly effective charities or pursuing a high-impact career.
In our world, there's suffering and deaths, and there's an unacceptably immense chance humanity won't survive another century. That shouldn't be the case. Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to help everyone, to prevent all lives from ending, and prevent all the suffering.
We suggest donating to the most effective charities in the world. That will save lives and do the most good per dollar. We can't help everyone, but the thing we can do is to save as many people as we can and prevent as much suffering as we're able to with the resources we have. It costs $50k in the US to train a dog that will help a blind person; it costs $5 to cure a disease preventing blindness of a person in Africa. Ideally, we'd like to cure all blindness or, at least, help everyone to the possible extent. We can't do that, so we ought to help the most. GiveWell has a list of the most effective charities in the world. Please consider donating there.
The value of a life is unimaginably large. I hope that at some point, humanity will be able to tear apart stars to save a single life, and I would consider tearing apart stars worth it. At the moment, it costs just around $5k to save a life. For every $5k donated, someone who'd otherwise die will live. It's not ok that saving an invaluable life costs that little, but it's where we at; please, donate and save lives.
If you're interested in how to do the most good with your career, consider visiting 80,000 Hours. It's a nonprofit that gives research-backed advice on how to choose a career with the most impact. Some careers are more impactful than others by orders of magnitude. Having a high income and donating a large portion of it might save more lives than being a doctor. Working on pandemic preparedness (something 80,000 Hours recommended doing even before the Covid-19 pandemic!) or reducing the existential risks arising from climate change or the AI Alignment problem might have even more impact than donating, especially if you consider the impact on the future generations. I'm personally specifically excited about the AI Alignment research; see the 80,000 Hours' review of the problem.
Please consider donating to charities recommended by GiveWell or looking into 80,000 Hours. Human lives are much more important than some random Reddit bot.
