yes it’s something like that, except that we do make specific recommendations, which are suited to their core values, and that they typically make donations via our donor advised fund rather than directly.
Cool! Are you able to indicate roughly what order of magnitude of donations you would expect to contribute per-year, over the next few years in the promising areas (or any of the others if they’re significantly bigger than those) such as:
Donors focused on the long-term future of sentient life. Donors focused on GCRs and existential risk. Improving science Sundry ex risks/GCRs Improving political institutions and political wisdom
I’d need a better understanding of how Founders Pledge works to be able to say anything intelligent. I’m guessing the idea is something like:
when founders are due to donate, you prompt them
you ask them what kind of advice they would like
you give them some research relevant to that, and do/don’t make specific recommendations ???
they make donations directly
Is that how it actually happens?
yes it’s something like that, except that we do make specific recommendations, which are suited to their core values, and that they typically make donations via our donor advised fund rather than directly.
Cool! Are you able to indicate roughly what order of magnitude of donations you would expect to contribute per-year, over the next few years in the promising areas (or any of the others if they’re significantly bigger than those) such as:
Donors focused on the long-term future of sentient life.
Donors focused on GCRs and existential risk.
Improving science
Sundry ex risks/GCRs
Improving political institutions and political wisdom
?
I would expect it to be in the millions/yr, though I don’t think I should throw about specific figures on the forum.
No problem. I’ve also had a skim of the x-risk report to get an idea of what research you’re talking about.
Would you expect the donors to be much more interested in some of the areas you mention than others, or similarly interested in all the areas?
I think we will be able to convince enough of them to donate to high-impact areas regardless of what they are