Do you think animal welfare /​ digital minds will really see a substantial increase in funding, or just global health and AI safety? Because excepting animal-pilled EAs at Anthropic, the funding sources don’t make me bullish about increased funding for those neglected cause areas.
This matters because if one would be earning to give for AI safety, I’d see the argument for deprioritizing that, but I’m not sure earning to give for animal welfare /​ digital minds is suboptimal just yet.
Great point, thanks Ariel. I wouldn’t say earning to give is necessarily suboptimal (for any cause), just that directionally more money will flow across and within major EA focus areas.
My best guess is that there will be an increase in funding to animal welfare, though likely not to the extent of the funding increase to AI safety. I’m less confident in the funding landscape for digital minds, but I would guess that this field will get a boost as well (e.g, because Longview may receive more donations).
Anthropic employees + founders represent tens of billions of dollars, and a decent fraction are animal pilled (at a rate a bit less than the typical EA I would guess), so I think you should expect significant increases in funding. Digital minds seem like something Anthropic employees are likely to be more into than the typical EA, though probably won’t know where to give to
Do you think animal welfare /​ digital minds will really see a substantial increase in funding, or just global health and AI safety? Because excepting animal-pilled EAs at Anthropic, the funding sources don’t make me bullish about increased funding for those neglected cause areas.
This matters because if one would be earning to give for AI safety, I’d see the argument for deprioritizing that, but I’m not sure earning to give for animal welfare /​ digital minds is suboptimal just yet.
Great point, thanks Ariel. I wouldn’t say earning to give is necessarily suboptimal (for any cause), just that directionally more money will flow across and within major EA focus areas.
My best guess is that there will be an increase in funding to animal welfare, though likely not to the extent of the funding increase to AI safety. I’m less confident in the funding landscape for digital minds, but I would guess that this field will get a boost as well (e.g, because Longview may receive more donations).
Anthropic employees + founders represent tens of billions of dollars, and a decent fraction are animal pilled (at a rate a bit less than the typical EA I would guess), so I think you should expect significant increases in funding. Digital minds seem like something Anthropic employees are likely to be more into than the typical EA, though probably won’t know where to give to
Glad to hear and hope you’re right!