| Task type | Total in year 2025 | Total in year 2024 | Total in year 2023 | Total in year 2022 | Total in year 2021 | Total in year 2020 | Total in year 2019 | Total in year 2018 | Total in year 2017 | Total in year 2016 | Total in year 2015 | Total across years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preliminary research | 0.00 | 280.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 111.75 | 593.85 | 0.00 | 870.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,855.60 |
| People watching | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 350.00 | 380.00 | 400.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,130.00 |
| On-the-ground investigation | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 570.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 570.00 |
| Total | 0.00 | 280.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 111.75 | 943.85 | 380.00 | 1,840.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3,555.60 |
Graph of payments made by task type and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of payments made by task type and year (cumulative)
| Month | Preliminary research | People watching | On-the-ground investigation | Total across task types |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08 | 280.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 280.00 |
| 2020-05 | 22.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 22.50 |
| 2020-03 | 89.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 89.25 |
| 2019-10 | 0.00 | 350.00 | 0.00 | 350.00 |
| 2019-08 | 95.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 95.10 |
| 2019-07 | 498.75 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 498.75 |
| 2018-01 | 0.00 | 380.00 | 0.00 | 380.00 |
| 2017-12 | 0.00 | 400.00 | 0.00 | 400.00 |
| 2017-10 | 300.00 | 0.00 | 570.00 | 870.00 |
| 2017-03 | 570.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 570.00 |
| Total across months | 1,855.60 | 1,130.00 | 570.00 | 3,555.60 |
Graph of payments made by task type and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of payments made by task type and year (cumulative)
| Worker | Task venue | Task type | Task receptacle | Completion date | Payer | Payment | Topic | Time spent (hours:minutes) | Effective pay per hour | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivia Mora | Timelines wiki | Preliminary research | Timeline of AI policy | 2024-08-31 | Vipul Naik | 112.00 | AI safety | 8:00 | 14.00 | In August, Olivia spent time on preliminary research in preparation for work on a timeline of AI policy. The actual creation of the timeline at https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_AI_policy started in September 2024. 8 hours at $14/hour. |
| Reagan Sang | AI Watch | Preliminary research | N/A | 2024-08-31 | Vipul Naik | 98.00 | AI safety | 7:00 | 14.00 | Preliminary research and setup work for AI Watch, including reading the timeline of AI safety and working on local AI Watch setup. 7 hours at $14/hour. |
| Tajudeen Riliwan | AI Watch | Preliminary research | N/A | 2024-08-31 | Vipul Naik | 70.00 | AI safety | 5:00 | 14.00 | Preliminary research and setup work for AI Watch, including reading the timeline of AI safety and working on local AI Watch setup. 5 hours at $14/hour. |
| Issa Rice | wikiHow | Preliminary research | wikiHow view count data analysis | 2020-05-03 | Vipul Naik | 22.50 | Data | 3:00 | 7.50 | Completed May 3, but most of the actual work done 2018-09-08 to 2018-09-13: wikiHow view count data analysis for 3 hours at $7.50/hour |
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | Coronavirus notes | 2020-03-29 | Vipul Naik | 89.25 | Global health/Coronavirus | 5:06 | 17.50 | Work done 2020-03-13 to 2020-03-29 at $17.50/hour. This was preliminary research related to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic that could potentially inform further work by Issa or Vipul; however, based on the preliminary research, we decided to not continue further for now |
| Issa Rice | People repo | People watching | People repo | 2019-10-23 | Vipul Naik | 350.00 | People | 96:00 | 3.65 | 96 hours of work (12 working days of 8 hours each) over the time period of February 6, 2018 to October 23, 2019. The original payment agreement was 10 working days of 8 hours each at $35/day, but we increased it by 2 days in exchange for Vipul going out and collecting some information of potential interest to Issa. |
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | Recruiting assistance for Future of Humanity Institute | 2019-08-07 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | 95.10 | AI safety/Global catastophic risks | 6:20 | 15.02 | The part in August 2019 of work done helping Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) with recruitment. Payment is from the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) via the BERI/FHI collaboration. Work done from 2019-08-01 to 2019-08-07 |
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | Recruiting assistance for Future of Humanity Institute | 2019-07-31 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | 498.75 | AI safety/Global catastophic risks | 33:15 | 15.00 | The part in July 2019 of work done helping Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) with recruitment. Payment is from the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) via the BERI/FHI collaboration. Work done from 2019-07-10 to 2019-07-31 |
| Issa Rice | People repo | People watching | People repo | 2018-01-13 | Vipul Naik | 380.00 | People | 65:14 | 5.83 | Third and fourth 4-day batches (at $50/day and $45/day) of writing up notes about different people we are interested in. See the commit https://github.com/riceissa/issarice.com/commit/0e10eca1b82c425067779bc32af0b6f94be7acb8#diff-c7ed78d772be81a5381d65cc6d32a95f for background |
| Issa Rice | People repo | People watching | People repo | 2017-12-29 | Vipul Naik | 400.00 | People | 62:33 | 6.39 | First two 4-day batches (at $50/day) of writing up notes about different people we are interested in. See the commit https://github.com/riceissa/issarice.com/commit/0e10eca1b82c425067779bc32af0b6f94be7acb8#diff-c7ed78d772be81a5381d65cc6d32a95f for background |
| Issa Rice | Devec subwiki | Preliminary research | Devec subwiki | 2017-10-06 | Vipul Naik | 300.00 | Global development | 113:00 | 2.65 | This is a stipend supplement. Preliminary reading on development economics as well as databases of economic growth and metrics. This would eventually help with data porting exercises and expanding https://devec.subwiki.org (the Devec subwiki) |
| Sebastian Sanchez | On-the-ground investigation | Visits to animal farms in Zambia | 2017-10-05 | Peter Hurford | 570.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming | Breakdown: $360 for reimbursements, $180 for labor ($15/hour, 12 hours), and $30 for uploading content. See https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156676891004377.1073741837.634404376&type=3 (visit 1, slaughterhouse/abattoir in Livingstone), https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156677566689377.1073741838.634404376&type=3 (visit 2, modern chicken and cattle farm in Southern Zambia), and https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156685699114377.1073741839.634404376&type=3 (visit 3, Siyakasipa Village where animals are reared by a village) | |||
| Issa Rice | None | Preliminary research | hits-based giving project | 2017-03-22 | Peter Hurford | 570.00 | Philanthropy/history of philanthropy | Initial work for a project announced by Peter Hurford at http://effective-altruism.com/ea/14s/how_many_hits_does_hitsbased_giving_get_a/ after some modification and discussion with Peter. Due to data availability constraints,the project could not be completed,so the pay is for 38 hours of initial work at $15/hour |