Still on billionaire philanthropy, regarding Question “6. Permissible donor influence”: it’d be interesting to consider not only how depending on a smal concentrated set of donors may pose a risk of undue influence, but also how this creates a problem of “few points of failure”. a) With FTX collapse, crypto financial crisis and the tech stocks low prices… EA suddenly appears to be more funding constrained than one year ago, and needing to manage rep risks, right after having made great plans when people thought there was a “funding overhang”. b) SBF actually had made our major sources of funding appear to be less concentrated—we went from “relying mostly on Open Phil” to ”… also on FTX.”
Still on billionaire philanthropy, regarding Question “6. Permissible donor influence”: it’d be interesting to consider not only how depending on a smal concentrated set of donors may pose a risk of undue influence, but also how this creates a problem of “few points of failure”.
a) With FTX collapse, crypto financial crisis and the tech stocks low prices… EA suddenly appears to be more funding constrained than one year ago, and needing to manage rep risks, right after having made great plans when people thought there was a “funding overhang”.
b) SBF actually had made our major sources of funding appear to be less concentrated—we went from “relying mostly on Open Phil” to ”… also on FTX.”
Agreed! Will do.