It’s not clear to me that we should support the MacArthur Foundation’s grants on effectiveness grounds alone. But they might be worth it on reputational grounds + effectiveness. There is an entire field of people who will respect EA because it saved their jobs and they are people we want the respect of.
”Since 2015 alone, MacArthur directed 231 grants totaling >$100m in some cases providing more than half the annual funding for individual institutions or programs.” ″MacArthur was providing something like 40 to 55 percent of all the funding worldwide of the non-government funding worldwide on nuclear policy” https://t.co/srsq45ejc7?amp=1
The MacArthur Foundation’s nuclear granting
It’s not clear to me that we should support the MacArthur Foundation’s grants on effectiveness grounds alone. But they might be worth it on reputational grounds + effectiveness. There is an entire field of people who will respect EA because it saved their jobs and they are people we want the respect of.
”Since 2015 alone, MacArthur directed 231 grants totaling >$100m in some cases providing more than half the annual funding for individual institutions or programs.”
″MacArthur was providing something like 40 to 55 percent of all the funding worldwide of the non-government funding worldwide on nuclear policy”
https://t.co/srsq45ejc7?amp=1
This isn’t my idea.
ht Haydn Belfield for the quoted text.