Sam Bankman Fried (~$25B) is currently estimated to be about twice as rich as Dustin Moskovitz (~$13B). The rest of committed EA money is <$10B, so SBF and colleagues constitute close-to, if not half of all EA funds. I don’t think people have fully reoriented toward this reality. For example, we should care more about top talent going to the FTX Foundation, and worry less if OpenPhil won’t fund a pet project.
Obviously, crypto is volatile, so this may change!
I think Elon is currently giving less, and less effectively than the donors I mentioned are (or that I expect Sam to, based on his pledges and so on) - the $5B may be to his own foundation/DAF. But I agree that he could quickly become highly significant by changing one or both of those things.
Sam Bankman Fried (~$25B) is currently estimated to be about twice as rich as Dustin Moskovitz (~$13B). The rest of committed EA money is <$10B, so SBF and colleagues constitute close-to, if not half of all EA funds. I don’t think people have fully reoriented toward this reality. For example, we should care more about top talent going to the FTX Foundation, and worry less if OpenPhil won’t fund a pet project.
Obviously, crypto is volatile, so this may change!
An adjustment:
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musk-igor-kurganov-where-did-elon-musks-5-7-billion-mystery-donation-go-2771003
I think Elon is currently giving less, and less effectively than the donors I mentioned are (or that I expect Sam to, based on his pledges and so on) - the $5B may be to his own foundation/DAF. But I agree that he could quickly become highly significant by changing one or both of those things.
Agree about currently, but I am hopeful about the new management.
Didn’t last long.
Can you write a bit more to explain?
As in we should want talented grantmakers to work for Sam.