(General question, not necessarily for Will in particular) Re getting another regrants program started: has there been a look at how this went with Future Fund’s regranting program? I viewed it as pretty experimental, and I don’t have much sense of whether someone’s looked at the pros and cons of that system. Obviously that project came to a sudden end, so I understand why any planned analysis didn’t happen as planned.
We’ve just launched a regrants program inspired by the Future Fund! I think the FF team’s June 2022 writeup best captured the benefits of the system, but I don’t think anyone has posted an analysis since then—which we’re (naturally) very interested in.
Looking through FF’s database of past regrants, I was impressed by several regrants which were early to identify work I would describe later as quite good. Examples include the Future Forum, Dwarkesh Patel, and Quantified Intuitions/Sage. Of course, we (Manifold Markets) ourselves were the recipient of a $1m regrant which was the anchor for our seed round, so we’re fairly biased here.
I’ve been thinking about regranting on and off for about a year, specifically about whether it makes sense to use bespoke mechanisms like quadratic funding or some of its close cousins. I still don’t know where I land on many design choices, so I won’t say more about that now.
I’m not aware of any retrospective on FTXFF’s program but it might be a good idea to do it when we have enough information to evaluate performance (so in 6-12 months?) Another thing in this vein that I think would be valuable and could happen right away is looking into SFF’s S-process.
(General question, not necessarily for Will in particular)
Re getting another regrants program started: has there been a look at how this went with Future Fund’s regranting program? I viewed it as pretty experimental, and I don’t have much sense of whether someone’s looked at the pros and cons of that system. Obviously that project came to a sudden end, so I understand why any planned analysis didn’t happen as planned.
We’ve just launched a regrants program inspired by the Future Fund! I think the FF team’s June 2022 writeup best captured the benefits of the system, but I don’t think anyone has posted an analysis since then—which we’re (naturally) very interested in.
Looking through FF’s database of past regrants, I was impressed by several regrants which were early to identify work I would describe later as quite good. Examples include the Future Forum, Dwarkesh Patel, and Quantified Intuitions/Sage. Of course, we (Manifold Markets) ourselves were the recipient of a $1m regrant which was the anchor for our seed round, so we’re fairly biased here.
I’ve been thinking about regranting on and off for about a year, specifically about whether it makes sense to use bespoke mechanisms like quadratic funding or some of its close cousins. I still don’t know where I land on many design choices, so I won’t say more about that now.
I’m not aware of any retrospective on FTXFF’s program but it might be a good idea to do it when we have enough information to evaluate performance (so in 6-12 months?) Another thing in this vein that I think would be valuable and could happen right away is looking into SFF’s S-process.