Thanks a lot for the review, I was looking forward to reading it, it updated me further towards donating to the LTFF this year and you reviewed some really interesting papers that I haven’t noticed before.
In donating to the LTFF, I think (many) donors are hoping to be funding smaller projects that they could not directly access themselves. As it is, such donors will probably have to consider such organisation allocations a mild ‘tax’ – to the extent that different large organisations are chosen then they would have picked themselves.
I think that’s a reasonable point. It was also touched upon in the recent AMA of the LTFF, and the fund managers seem to agree that funding individuals and smaller projects is their comparative advantage. I personally won’t feel taxed if they decided that some established org can use my money best as long as a meaningful fraction of the money goes towards projects I wouldn’t have heard of.
Thanks a lot for the review, I was looking forward to reading it, it updated me further towards donating to the LTFF this year and you reviewed some really interesting papers that I haven’t noticed before.
I think that’s a reasonable point. It was also touched upon in the recent AMA of the LTFF, and the fund managers seem to agree that funding individuals and smaller projects is their comparative advantage. I personally won’t feel taxed if they decided that some established org can use my money best as long as a meaningful fraction of the money goes towards projects I wouldn’t have heard of.