I’m somewhat surprised about the lack of information about Anthropic employee’s donation plans.
Potential reasons:
They are all working full-time (probably more) and it’s really hard to get clarity on your own donation plans in such a situation. And communicating about them is even harder.
They might have specific plans but talking about them publicly is tricky. It might imply information about Anthropics plans (e.g. regarding IPO) or about the internal sentiment about the prospect of Anthropic gaining/losing value in the future. Or just plain old ‘what happens to your inbox once you imply that you’re going to be donating >10M soon?’.
They might not see a lot of benefit of communicating publicly about this. Maybe they are chatting with Coefficient Giving about their plans. Maybe they are planning their own foundation.
There might just not be that many people with significant wealth at Anthropic who are planning on donating effectively anytime soon. This could be because of value drift, because they expect their assets to increase in value and want to donate later, because they don’t see great donation opportunities yet.
Interested to hear whether I’ve missed a major consideration and whether people have takes about which of these reasons is most likely/explanatory.
By default, people don’t talk publicly about their donation plans, especially 1–2 years in advance. It probably just hasn’t occurred to them that they should.
I’m somewhat surprised about the lack of information about Anthropic employee’s donation plans.
Potential reasons:
They are all working full-time (probably more) and it’s really hard to get clarity on your own donation plans in such a situation. And communicating about them is even harder.
They might have specific plans but talking about them publicly is tricky. It might imply information about Anthropics plans (e.g. regarding IPO) or about the internal sentiment about the prospect of Anthropic gaining/losing value in the future. Or just plain old ‘what happens to your inbox once you imply that you’re going to be donating >10M soon?’.
They might not see a lot of benefit of communicating publicly about this. Maybe they are chatting with Coefficient Giving about their plans. Maybe they are planning their own foundation.
There might just not be that many people with significant wealth at Anthropic who are planning on donating effectively anytime soon. This could be because of value drift, because they expect their assets to increase in value and want to donate later, because they don’t see great donation opportunities yet.
Interested to hear whether I’ve missed a major consideration and whether people have takes about which of these reasons is most likely/explanatory.
By default, people don’t talk publicly about their donation plans, especially 1–2 years in advance. It probably just hasn’t occurred to them that they should.