Seems notable that my modes is that OpenPhil has stopped funding some right wing or even centrist projects, so has less power in this world than it could have done.
Most philanthropic (vs. government or industry) AI safety funding (>50%) comes from one source: Good Ventures, via Open Philanthropy.2 But they’ve recently stopped funding several categories of work (my own categories, not theirs):
Likewise almost all the people I know 2nd hand who have power in the new admin are via either twitter or rationality, both spaces where EA has, to my eye, sought to distance itself in recent years.
Seems notable that my modes is that OpenPhil has stopped funding some right wing or even centrist projects, so has less power in this world than it could have done.
Ben Todd writes:
Likewise almost all the people I know 2nd hand who have power in the new admin are via either twitter or rationality, both spaces where EA has, to my eye, sought to distance itself in recent years.