I saw mentioned in one discussion about Dustin Moskowitz’s exit from the Effective Altruism Forum that him quitting isn’t by itself necessarily an omen, of the relationship between Good Ventures and the effective altruism ecosystem becoming much colder than it is now. While it wouldn’t be a binary for Dustin anyway, it may seem like his is a special case with implications for the relationship between EA and Good Ventures going forward. Nonetheless, while most of them may not be billionaires, as far as I’m aware, I know there high net worth donors among effective altruists have also mentioned before that they’ve almost always tended to avoid the EA Forum. That’s probably for the same reasons any major philanthropist might. In spite of that, those donors have decently known relationships with the effective altruism ecosystem, with them remaining continually and relatively stable.
How and to what extent Dustin quitting the forum will imply decreased funding EA causes receive from Good Ventures will perhaps only become apparent later. The main indicator of that could be the nature and amount of grants made throughout the rest of the year, based on Open Philanthropy’s recommendations. It may be likely there’s a positive correlation between the two outcomes of Dustin quitting the EA Forum, and Good Ventures support for a variety of projects affiliated/aligned with effective altruism potentially declining. Yet how exactly how strong that correlation may be is hardly certain, and many effective altruists may currently be overestimating it.
I saw mentioned in one discussion about Dustin Moskowitz’s exit from the Effective Altruism Forum that him quitting isn’t by itself necessarily an omen, of the relationship between Good Ventures and the effective altruism ecosystem becoming much colder than it is now. While it wouldn’t be a binary for Dustin anyway, it may seem like his is a special case with implications for the relationship between EA and Good Ventures going forward. Nonetheless, while most of them may not be billionaires, as far as I’m aware, I know there high net worth donors among effective altruists have also mentioned before that they’ve almost always tended to avoid the EA Forum. That’s probably for the same reasons any major philanthropist might. In spite of that, those donors have decently known relationships with the effective altruism ecosystem, with them remaining continually and relatively stable.
How and to what extent Dustin quitting the forum will imply decreased funding EA causes receive from Good Ventures will perhaps only become apparent later. The main indicator of that could be the nature and amount of grants made throughout the rest of the year, based on Open Philanthropy’s recommendations. It may be likely there’s a positive correlation between the two outcomes of Dustin quitting the EA Forum, and Good Ventures support for a variety of projects affiliated/aligned with effective altruism potentially declining. Yet how exactly how strong that correlation may be is hardly certain, and many effective altruists may currently be overestimating it.