Amendment for the sake of thoroughness: Looking back, I think at one point I was passing through the Bahamas anyways, and asked FTX if they wanted me to stay over a week and talk to a bunch of visiting EAs they had in a Nassau hotel. I paid for the hotel (and later an Airbnb when the hotel ran out) out of pocket, and was reimbursed for that by FTX or FTX FF or something. I hardly consider this ‘being funded’, I didn’t go to any beaches or try to turn it into a vacation, more like I did some free work for them and had a place to stay while doing it; but there was nonetheless at one point a reimbursement that went from FTX wallet to Yudkowsky wallet. I myself consider this unimportant, but in matters like these it is important to be thorough.
Amendment for the sake of thoroughness: Looking back, I think at one point I was passing through the Bahamas anyways, and asked FTX if they wanted me to stay over a week and talk to a bunch of visiting EAs they had in a Nassau hotel. I paid for the hotel (and later an Airbnb when the hotel ran out) out of pocket, and was reimbursed for that by FTX or FTX FF or something. I hardly consider this ‘being funded’, I didn’t go to any beaches or try to turn it into a vacation, more like I did some free work for them and had a place to stay while doing it; but there was nonetheless at one point a reimbursement that went from FTX wallet to Yudkowsky wallet. I myself consider this unimportant, but in matters like these it is important to be thorough.
Here’s a list of all the financial interactions between MIRI and FTX/Alameda/SBF: https://twitter.com/robbensinger/status/1595893840484843521