I agree with the general point that Zuckerberg is too committed to being Facebook boss to give much of his stock away now, but he and his wife put $2b in Facebook shares into his own foundation, which isn’t particularly EA inclined (either explicitly or broadly). That’s less than Moskovitz-Tuna from a bigger chunk of wealth but it’s non-trivial, and certainly enough to show he’s not taking his most of cues from them.
I don’t consider this to be any sort of failing on Dustin’s part (I don’t expect my bosses to listen to my donation philosophy if they 100x their current net worth either, even though they definitely have some points of agreement with me and trust my judgement on some things) and think the more salient question is “why have so few people that are not Mark Zuckerberg but are also vaguely in the orbit of EAers donated to EA causes compared with other causes”
As for SBF, his “Future Fund” was less than FTX committed to stadium sponsorship, so I don’t think the desire to top that up can be blamed for his recklessness (even if the broader conceit that everything he did was for the greater good was). It’s absolutely possible to give significant amounts to philanthropic causes (EA or otherwise) and retain control of a business without being Sam.
I agree with the general point that Zuckerberg is too committed to being Facebook boss to give much of his stock away now, but he and his wife put $2b in Facebook shares into his own foundation, which isn’t particularly EA inclined (either explicitly or broadly). That’s less than Moskovitz-Tuna from a bigger chunk of wealth but it’s non-trivial, and certainly enough to show he’s not taking his most of cues from them.
I don’t consider this to be any sort of failing on Dustin’s part (I don’t expect my bosses to listen to my donation philosophy if they 100x their current net worth either, even though they definitely have some points of agreement with me and trust my judgement on some things) and think the more salient question is “why have so few people that are not Mark Zuckerberg but are also vaguely in the orbit of EAers donated to EA causes compared with other causes”
As for SBF, his “Future Fund” was less than FTX committed to stadium sponsorship, so I don’t think the desire to top that up can be blamed for his recklessness (even if the broader conceit that everything he did was for the greater good was). It’s absolutely possible to give significant amounts to philanthropic causes (EA or otherwise) and retain control of a business without being Sam.
I think you’re asking the right question. I’ve tried to answer that in my reply to Trappist here.