Fair point about the company age, and yeah I agree that this list is not representative of “people who join EA groups” (for many reasons), but my intuition is that these people actually are relatively altruistic by commonsense morality standards. Anil Agarwal stuck out to me as arguably the most egregious person on this list, and he pledged 75% of his wealth to charity. Milken is maybe number two, and he’s given > $1B. And of course SBF is probably high in the list of egregiousness, and seemingly was sincere in giving lots of money to charity. (Though note that SBF wasn’t in my data set because the giving pledge kicked him out.)
I would be interested in someone filtering this list by “people who have actually given >$X” and seeing if that changes the results though.
Fair point about the company age, and yeah I agree that this list is not representative of “people who join EA groups” (for many reasons), but my intuition is that these people actually are relatively altruistic by commonsense morality standards. Anil Agarwal stuck out to me as arguably the most egregious person on this list, and he pledged 75% of his wealth to charity. Milken is maybe number two, and he’s given > $1B. And of course SBF is probably high in the list of egregiousness, and seemingly was sincere in giving lots of money to charity. (Though note that SBF wasn’t in my data set because the giving pledge kicked him out.)
I would be interested in someone filtering this list by “people who have actually given >$X” and seeing if that changes the results though.