IMO the share of grants going to community infrastructure isn’t particularly relevant to the relative shares received by longterm and nearterm projects. But I’ll edit my post to note that the stat I cite is only from the first round of EA Grants since that’s the only round for which data was ever published.
one of the five concrete examples listed seems to be a relatively big global poverty grant.
Could you please clarify what you mean by this? I linked to an analysis listing written descriptions of 6 EA Grants made after the initial round, for which grant sizes were never provided. One of those (to Charity Entrepreneurship) could arguably be construed as a global poverty grant, though I think it’d be more natural to categorize it as meta/community (much as how I think it was reasonable that the grant you received to work on LessWrong2.0, the largest grant of the first round, was classified as a community building grant rather than a longtermist grant.)
In any case, the question of what causes the EA Grant program supported is an empirical one that should be easy to answer. I’ve already asked for data on this, and hope that CEA publishes it so we don’t have to speculate.
Yeah, the Charity Entrepreneurship grant is what I was talking about. But yeah, classifying that one as meta isn’t crazy to me, though I think I would classify it more as Global Poverty (since I don’t think it involved any general EA community infrastructure).
IMO the share of grants going to community infrastructure isn’t particularly relevant to the relative shares received by longterm and nearterm projects. But I’ll edit my post to note that the stat I cite is only from the first round of EA Grants since that’s the only round for which data was ever published.
Could you please clarify what you mean by this? I linked to an analysis listing written descriptions of 6 EA Grants made after the initial round, for which grant sizes were never provided. One of those (to Charity Entrepreneurship) could arguably be construed as a global poverty grant, though I think it’d be more natural to categorize it as meta/community (much as how I think it was reasonable that the grant you received to work on LessWrong2.0, the largest grant of the first round, was classified as a community building grant rather than a longtermist grant.)
In any case, the question of what causes the EA Grant program supported is an empirical one that should be easy to answer. I’ve already asked for data on this, and hope that CEA publishes it so we don’t have to speculate.
Yeah, the Charity Entrepreneurship grant is what I was talking about. But yeah, classifying that one as meta isn’t crazy to me, though I think I would classify it more as Global Poverty (since I don’t think it involved any general EA community infrastructure).