✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

[Linkpost] An update from Good Ventures — EA Forum

forum.effectivealtruism.org · 164 words · saved by 1 readers

I wanted to share this update from Good Ventures (Cari and Dustin’s philanthropy), which seems relevant to the EA community. Tl;dr: “while we generally plan to continue increasing our grantmaking in our existing focus areas via our partner Open Philanthropy, we have decided to exit a handful of sub-causes (amounting to less than 5% of our annual grantmaking), and we are no longer planning to expand into new causes in the near term by default.” A few follow-ups on this from an Open Phil perspective: There are 8.1 billion people on the planet and afaict 8,099,999,999 of them donate less to my favorite causes & orgs than @Dustin Moskovitz. That was true before this update and it will remain true after it. Like everyone else I have elaborate views on how GV/OP should spend money/be structured etc but let the record also show that I appreciate the hell out of Dustin & Cari, we got so lucky 🥲 It's also noteworthy that Dustin/GV/OP is both by far the largest EA donor and the one EA folks m

Alexander_Berger 9mo * 203 7 1 30 1 A quick update on this: Good Ventures is now open to supporting work that Open Phil recommends on digital minds/AI moral patienthood. We're still figuring out where that work should slot in (including whether we’d open a public call for applications) and will update people working in the field when we do. Additionally, Good Ventures are now open to considering a wider range of recommendations in right-of-center AI policy and a couple other smaller areas (e.g. in macrostrategy/futurism), though those will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for now. We’ll ho

Explore this link on the map →

related reading