Long-Term Future Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations — EA Forum

Introduction This payout report is meant to cover the Long-Term Future Fund's grantmaking starting January 2022 (after our December 2021 payout repor…

HaydnBelfield 2y 20 4 7 It seems like the majority of individual grantees (over several periods) are doing academic-related research. Can Caleb or other fund managers say more about why "One heuristic we commonly use (especially for new, unproven grantees) is to offer roughly 70% of what we anticipate the grantee would earn in an industry role" rather than e.g. "offer roughly the same as what we anticipate the grantee would earn in academia"? See e.g. the UC system salary scale : Reply

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