FWIW my reading of the question is: “What projects could be created, that have the potential to scale to $100m”. I didn’t read it as suggesting funding a megaproject from scratch.
Many EA projects are of the “start a research institute” flavour, and will likely never absorb $100m. I see the post as a plea for projects which could (after starting with smaller amounts and then scaling) absorb these sums of money. Much like Givedirectly wasn’t started with $100m/year budget right away, but has proven itself capable of deploying that much funding.
I think that’s my guess too, but I could easily imagine some readers not getting that. “Megaproject” as a term has often referred to projects that have to be planned in advance.
FWIW my reading of the question is: “What projects could be created, that have the potential to scale to $100m”. I didn’t read it as suggesting funding a megaproject from scratch.
Many EA projects are of the “start a research institute” flavour, and will likely never absorb $100m. I see the post as a plea for projects which could (after starting with smaller amounts and then scaling) absorb these sums of money. Much like Givedirectly wasn’t started with $100m/year budget right away, but has proven itself capable of deploying that much funding.
I think that’s my guess too, but I could easily imagine some readers not getting that. “Megaproject” as a term has often referred to projects that have to be planned in advance.