P.S. You should probably check out the drama regarding the purchase of a stately mansion called Wytham Abbey by the Effective Ventures Fund (formerly Centre for Effective Altruism).
To make a long story short: Two of EVF’s board members (Will MacAskill and Nick Beckstead) were selected by SBF to be on the FTX Future Fund leadership team (FTX Future Fund being a “charitable” arm of FTX). Under their leadership, the FTX Future Fund donated millions to EVF-afflilated charities (including ~$14million for an EVF subsidiary also called the Centre for Effective Altruism) . While this was happening, EVF was finalizing the purchase of a stately mansion near Oxford England that was listed for £15 million.
However, the purchase was made without the community’s knowledge, we only found out because of a New Yorker article about SBF. An EVF board member claims (without documentation) that FTX money was not used in the purchase of the mansion, but also made it apparent that the purchase probably would not have been made if the additional cashflow from FTX hadn’t covered the cost.
I doubt any journalist reading this Forum will have missed the Wytham thread, but here it is anyway (including long comments from both the funder and main grantee).
I think there’s a reasonable & worth-having discussion to be had about this, but the connection to FTX implied here seems very tenuous to me. Tony has made similar (& similarly-vague) allegations in several places on the Forum in the last couple of days, and I’m still not sure what he’s actually alleging.
No, I don’t, I just noticed a number of people in that thread were using their real names. One of them even posted this meme on their twitter :
https://web.archive.org/web/20211114183540/https://twitter.com/LinchZhang/status/1459951267401273345
P.S. You should probably check out the drama regarding the purchase of a stately mansion called Wytham Abbey by the Effective Ventures Fund (formerly Centre for Effective Altruism).
To make a long story short: Two of EVF’s board members (Will MacAskill and Nick Beckstead) were selected by SBF to be on the FTX Future Fund leadership team (FTX Future Fund being a “charitable” arm of FTX). Under their leadership, the FTX Future Fund donated millions to EVF-afflilated charities (including ~$14million for an EVF subsidiary also called the Centre for Effective Altruism) . While this was happening, EVF was finalizing the purchase of a stately mansion near Oxford England that was listed for £15 million.
However, the purchase was made without the community’s knowledge, we only found out because of a New Yorker article about SBF. An EVF board member claims (without documentation) that FTX money was not used in the purchase of the mansion, but also made it apparent that the purchase probably would not have been made if the additional cashflow from FTX hadn’t covered the cost.
I doubt any journalist reading this Forum will have missed the Wytham thread, but here it is anyway (including long comments from both the funder and main grantee).
I think there’s a reasonable & worth-having discussion to be had about this, but the connection to FTX implied here seems very tenuous to me. Tony has made similar (& similarly-vague) allegations in several places on the Forum in the last couple of days, and I’m still not sure what he’s actually alleging.