A crux here would be whether you think there are enough people and funding going to the most important opportunities/directions of work. OP has a lot of money, but they are not funding everything. If you think they cover almost everything important then that is there is a stronger case for direct work (e.g. try to get a grant from them)
You should also think about how confident you are that you can spend your own money effectively. Are you planning to choose projects to fund yourself? Will you defer to LTFF? How much do you trust the judgement of their evaluators compared to yours in knowing what’s important?
You should likely explore high-absorbancy career paths (e.g., fieldbuilding, comms) as well, as the ones you refer to in the post seem to be low-absorbancy.
sorry for the late reply. SWE/ML is low absorbency in a sense that there are a limited number of AIS orgs that can employ people. They are high absorbency if you want to use these skills to do earning to give. Hope that clarifies what I meant!
I think this roughly makes sense?
A crux here would be whether you think there are enough people and funding going to the most important opportunities/directions of work.
OP has a lot of money, but they are not funding everything. If you think they cover almost everything important then that is there is a stronger case for direct work (e.g. try to get a grant from them)
You should also think about how confident you are that you can spend your own money effectively. Are you planning to choose projects to fund yourself? Will you defer to LTFF? How much do you trust the judgement of their evaluators compared to yours in knowing what’s important?
You should likely explore high-absorbancy career paths (e.g., fieldbuilding, comms) as well, as the ones you refer to in the post seem to be low-absorbancy.
Why is SWE/ML low absorbency?
sorry for the late reply. SWE/ML is low absorbency in a sense that there are a limited number of AIS orgs that can employ people. They are high absorbency if you want to use these skills to do earning to give. Hope that clarifies what I meant!