in practice many high-leverage opportunities are still (in my opinion) available to marginal EtGers — at-least, if those EtGers are willing to be at least 1/5th as proactive about finding good opportunities as, say, Matt Wage is.
Interesting! Are you able to be more concrete about those opportunities? (Or how proactive Matt is?)
And finally, it’s also possible that individual EtGers might have different values or world-models than the public faces of GW/GV have, and for that reason those marginal EtGers could have good opportunities available to them that are not likely to be met by GW-directed funding anytime soon, if ever.
Yeah, definitely agree that this is the case—on the other hand, it seems like there are a lot of EtGers with a fairly diverse set of values/world-models in place already. I’m worried specifically about marginal EtGers; I think the average EtGer is doing super useful stuff.
From talking to Matt Wage a few times I got the impression that he spends the equivalent of a few full time work weeks per year figuring out where to donate. Requiring potential donors to spend that much time seems like a flaw in the system, and EA ventures seems to be addressing it.
I don’t know the whole story, but Matt Wage kept close tabs on FLI, and gave a substantial amount of money at a well-chosen time, which helped make the AI conference planning go more smoothly.
Interesting! Are you able to be more concrete about those opportunities? (Or how proactive Matt is?)
Yeah, definitely agree that this is the case—on the other hand, it seems like there are a lot of EtGers with a fairly diverse set of values/world-models in place already. I’m worried specifically about marginal EtGers; I think the average EtGer is doing super useful stuff.
From talking to Matt Wage a few times I got the impression that he spends the equivalent of a few full time work weeks per year figuring out where to donate. Requiring potential donors to spend that much time seems like a flaw in the system, and EA ventures seems to be addressing it.
I don’t know the whole story, but Matt Wage kept close tabs on FLI, and gave a substantial amount of money at a well-chosen time, which helped make the AI conference planning go more smoothly.