I am in contact with a couple of other funding sources who would take recommendations from me seriously, but this fund is the place I have most direct control over.
Both Matts are long-time earn-to-givers, so they each make grants/donations from their own earnings as well as working with this fund.
I personally fund some things that are too small and generally much too weird for anyone else to fund, but besides that, I don’t control any alternative pots of discretionary funding.
(Can’t speak for everyone, so just answering for me) I do not control alternative pots of discretionary funding, besides the budget of the LessWrong organization. I can imagine running into some overlap of things I might want to fund with the LessWrong budget and things I would want to recommend a grant for, mostly in the space of rewarding research output on LessWrong and the EA Forum, but overall I expect the overlap to be quite minor.
I’d be interested to know, if it can be disclosed publicly, whether non-advisor team members also control alternative pots of discretionary funding.
I am in contact with a couple of other funding sources who would take recommendations from me seriously, but this fund is the place I have most direct control over.
Both Matts are long-time earn-to-givers, so they each make grants/donations from their own earnings as well as working with this fund.
I personally fund some things that are too small and generally much too weird for anyone else to fund, but besides that, I don’t control any alternative pots of discretionary funding.
(Can’t speak for everyone, so just answering for me) I do not control alternative pots of discretionary funding, besides the budget of the LessWrong organization. I can imagine running into some overlap of things I might want to fund with the LessWrong budget and things I would want to recommend a grant for, mostly in the space of rewarding research output on LessWrong and the EA Forum, but overall I expect the overlap to be quite minor.