Thanks for putting this data together! Very useful
The growth in EA Infrastructure is huge in 2022. This should translate into an impressive takeover of the EA community and funding very soon. I’m looking forward to seeing the evolution in upcoming years. Do we have any clue on why the donors started to pay so much attention to EA Infrastructure in 2022 when compared to the previous eight years?
Shouldn’t these FTX donations be included under “Longtermism and Catastrophic Risk Prevention” instead of under “EA infrastructure”? Maybe I’m missinterpreting the Cause Areas.
Thanks Linch for guiding me to the exact place where to find the information. Sorry that I didn’t realize the information was already there from the start. I put it together to understand where the additional 65,6 M$ are going to.
In the spreadsheet there are two rows: “2022” and “2022 (est.)”. I assume the “2022” is actual year to date and the “2022 (est.)” is the expectation for year end. I guess the detailed explanation is somewhere but I don’t have the time now to search for it.
For FTX Meta the value for “2022” is 35, and the value for “2022 (est.)” is 41.6. I see two options here for the mismatch between 34 (7+3+24) in my post and 35 in the spreadsheet: A) 35 is a typo and the value should be 34. I added a comment in the spreadsheet B) 35 is the good number and there is other 1M$ FTX chapter that can be considered as Meta. Maybe “Research That Can Help Us Improve”?
In reallity it is not so important 1M$.
I also can’t understand why Tyler’s comment was downvoted.
Thanks for putting this data together! Very useful
The growth in EA Infrastructure is huge in 2022. This should translate into an impressive takeover of the EA community and funding very soon. I’m looking forward to seeing the evolution in upcoming years.
Do we have any clue on why the donors started to pay so much attention to EA Infrastructure in 2022 when compared to the previous eight years?
The biggest factor is the arrival of FTX, which has given more to infrastructure YTD than all others combined the prior two years
Thanks for your response Tyler!
Shouldn’t these FTX donations be included under “Longtermism and Catastrophic Risk Prevention” instead of under “EA infrastructure”? Maybe I’m missinterpreting the Cause Areas.
No he’s right. FTX gave 34M in the linked report to “Effective Altruism”, while “EA Meta” in 2020 and 2021 was “only” 30.4M
EDIT: Also LOL at Tyler’s comment being downvoted before my explanation.
Thanks Linch for guiding me to the exact place where to find the information. Sorry that I didn’t realize the information was already there from the start.
I put it together to understand where the additional 65,6 M$ are going to.
Welcome! I think there’s a calculation error. How are you getting 41.6 for FTX? 7M+3M+24M = 34M. :)
In the spreadsheet there are two rows: “2022” and “2022 (est.)”. I assume the “2022” is actual year to date and the “2022 (est.)” is the expectation for year end. I guess the detailed explanation is somewhere but I don’t have the time now to search for it.
For FTX Meta the value for “2022” is 35, and the value for “2022 (est.)” is 41.6. I see two options here for the mismatch between 34 (7+3+24) in my post and 35 in the spreadsheet:
A) 35 is a typo and the value should be 34. I added a comment in the spreadsheet
B) 35 is the good number and there is other 1M$ FTX chapter that can be considered as Meta. Maybe “Research That Can Help Us Improve”?
In reallity it is not so important 1M$.
I also can’t understand why Tyler’s comment was downvoted.