When I first talked to Gleb about EA, he offered an objection I don’t remember (something about it being too cold or too demanding). He became interested a while after I mentioned that EAs might want to fund his rational thinking outreach work. I’m not sure Gleb has ever given money to an EA charity that wasn’t his own.
On the other hand a cynic might note that he has used his interactions with CFAR to promote himself and his organization, e.g. his linked favorable review of CFAR comes with a few plugs for Intentional Insights, and CFAR (or rather the erroneous acronym-unpacking ‘Center for Advanced Rationality’) appeared as a collaboration in InIn promotional documents. My understanding is that the impression that he was aligned with CFAR (and EA) had also made some CFAR donors more open to InIn fundraising pitches.
He has also taken the Giving What We Can pledge, but I don’t know what that means. He has said he and his wife fund most of InIn’s budget (which would presumably be more than 10% of his income) and claims that it is highly effective, so might take that to satisfy his pledge.
[Disclosure: my wife is the executive director of CFAR, but I am speaking only for myself.]
He wrote that he is a ‘monthly donor’ to CFAR.
On the other hand a cynic might note that he has used his interactions with CFAR to promote himself and his organization, e.g. his linked favorable review of CFAR comes with a few plugs for Intentional Insights, and CFAR (or rather the erroneous acronym-unpacking ‘Center for Advanced Rationality’) appeared as a collaboration in InIn promotional documents. My understanding is that the impression that he was aligned with CFAR (and EA) had also made some CFAR donors more open to InIn fundraising pitches.
He has also taken the Giving What We Can pledge, but I don’t know what that means. He has said he and his wife fund most of InIn’s budget (which would presumably be more than 10% of his income) and claims that it is highly effective, so might take that to satisfy his pledge.
[Disclosure: my wife is the executive director of CFAR, but I am speaking only for myself.]