I just wanted to second this comment and would love to be pointed to good resources on the reasons.
I stopped being involved in EA during 2016ish era conversations around starting to target mostly whales (the most wealthy funders) and a shift towards x-risk as the most important cause area. It was repeatedly promised this strategy would lead to such a wellspring of funds from aligned billionaires that the most important short-term cause areas would not suffer from any relative decrease in funding than if those (public health, global poverty, etc.) had remained the focus.
I just wanted to second this comment and would love to be pointed to good resources on the reasons.
I stopped being involved in EA during 2016ish era conversations around starting to target mostly whales (the most wealthy funders) and a shift towards x-risk as the most important cause area. It was repeatedly promised this strategy would lead to such a wellspring of funds from aligned billionaires that the most important short-term cause areas would not suffer from any relative decrease in funding than if those (public health, global poverty, etc.) had remained the focus.
Does anyone know what happened to that?