Just one comment: the essay asks “Why doesn’t the Gates foundation just close the funding gap of AMF and SCI?” but doesn’t seem to offer an answer. The closest seems to be 3b/c which suggests it’s a coordination problem or donor’s dilemma: everyone is expecting everyone else to fund these organizations.
If that’s the case, the relevant question would seem to be: what does the Gates foundation want? If the EA community finds something that GF wants that we can potentially offer (such as new high-risk high-return charities doing something totally innovative), then we can potentially do a moral trade with them.
Just one comment: the essay asks “Why doesn’t the Gates foundation just close the funding gap of AMF and SCI?” but doesn’t seem to offer an answer. The closest seems to be 3b/c which suggests it’s a coordination problem or donor’s dilemma: everyone is expecting everyone else to fund these organizations.
If that’s the case, the relevant question would seem to be: what does the Gates foundation want? If the EA community finds something that GF wants that we can potentially offer (such as new high-risk high-return charities doing something totally innovative), then we can potentially do a moral trade with them.