I don’t think it’s reasonable to think about FHI DPhil scholarships and even less so RSP as a mainly a funding program. (maybe ~15% of the impact comes from the funding)
If I understand the funding landscape correctly, both EA funds and LTFF are potentially able to fund single-digit number of PhDs. Actually has someone approached these funders with a request like “I want to work on safety with Marcus Hutter, and the only thing preventing me is funding”? Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I would expect such requests to have decent chance of success.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to think about FHI DPhil scholarships and even less so RSP as a mainly a funding program. (maybe ~15% of the impact comes from the funding)
If I understand the funding landscape correctly, both EA funds and LTFF are potentially able to fund single-digit number of PhDs. Actually has someone approached these funders with a request like “I want to work on safety with Marcus Hutter, and the only thing preventing me is funding”? Maybe I’m too optimistic, but I would expect such requests to have decent chance of success.