Edit: I retracted the below because I think it is unkind and wasn’t truth-seeking enough. I apologise if I caused too much stress to @Dustin Moskovitz or @Alexander_Berger, even if I have disagreements with GVF/​OP about things I very much appreciate what both of you are doing for the world, let alone ‘EA’ or its surrounding community.
Wait what, we’re (or GV is) defunding animal stuff to focus more on AI stuff? That seems really bad to me, I feel like ‘PR’ damage to EA is much more coming from the ‘AI eschaton’ side than the ‘help the animals’ side (and also that interventions on animal welfare are plausibly much more valuable than AI)[1]
No, the farm animal welfare budget is not changing, and some of the substreams GV are exiting (or not entering) are on the AI side. So any funding from substratgies that GV is no longer funding within FAW would be reallocated to other strategies within FAW (and as Dustin notes below, hopefully the strategies that GV will no longer fund can be taken forward by others).
Edit: I retracted the below because I think it is unkind and wasn’t truth-seeking enough. I apologise if I caused too much stress to @Dustin Moskovitz or @Alexander_Berger, even if I have disagreements with GVF/​OP about things I very much appreciate what both of you are doing for the world, let alone ‘EA’ or its surrounding community.
Wait what, we’re (or GV is) defunding animal stuff to focus more on AI stuff? That seems really bad to me, I feel like ‘PR’ damage to EA is much more coming from the ‘AI eschaton’ side than the ‘help the animals’ side (and also that interventions on animal welfare are plausibly much more valuable than AI)[1]e.g. here and here
No, the farm animal welfare budget is not changing, and some of the substreams GV are exiting (or not entering) are on the AI side. So any funding from substratgies that GV is no longer funding within FAW would be reallocated to other strategies within FAW (and as Dustin notes below, hopefully the strategies that GV will no longer fund can be taken forward by others).