This strikes me as an odd statement. If you’re talking about the LTF fund, or EA long-termism, it doesn’t seem like much policy work has been funded.
Huh, why do you think that? CSET was Open Phil’s largest grant to date, and I know of at least another $20MM+ in policy projects that have been funded.
Sadly, I think a lot of policy grants are announced less publicly, because publicity is usually harmful for policy projects or positions (which I think is at least some evidence of them being at least somewhat adversarial/non-cooperative, which is one of the reasons why I have a somewhat higher prior against policy projects). Approximately all policy applications to the LTFF end up requesting that we do not publish a public writeup on them, so we often refer them to private funders if we think they are a good idea.
“I don’t think we’ve had really any policy successes with regards to the Long Term Future”
Bias view incoming …. :
I think LTFF’s only (public) historical grant for policy advocacy, to the APPG for Future Generations, has led to better policy in the UK, in particular on risk management. For discussions on this see impact reports here and here, independent reviews here and here, and criticism here.
Additionally I think CLTR has been doing impactful long-term focused policy work in the UK.
Huh, why do you think that? CSET was Open Phil’s largest grant to date, and I know of at least another $20MM+ in policy projects that have been funded.
Sadly, I think a lot of policy grants are announced less publicly, because publicity is usually harmful for policy projects or positions (which I think is at least some evidence of them being at least somewhat adversarial/non-cooperative, which is one of the reasons why I have a somewhat higher prior against policy projects). Approximately all policy applications to the LTFF end up requesting that we do not publish a public writeup on them, so we often refer them to private funders if we think they are a good idea.
I guess I was just wrong, I hadn’t looked into it much!
Bias view incoming …. :
I think LTFF’s only (public) historical grant for policy advocacy, to the APPG for Future Generations, has led to better policy in the UK, in particular on risk management. For discussions on this see impact reports here and here, independent reviews here and here, and criticism here.
Additionally I think CLTR has been doing impactful long-term focused policy work in the UK.