This is not really a disagreement but rather nitpicking, but I noticed that according to https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/ MIRI did receive a donation from Alameda Research. Not a large one, but some money from the SBF ecosystem arrived at MIRI, apparently. But this does not really contradict the speculations you make about SBF avoiding certain Bay Area people.
Yep, well-picked nit, I was just told about that myself. Perfectly good substantive disagreement with the original thesis, imo, you don’t need to downplay it that much.
It also makes sense that the money would’ve come from the Alameda side (maybe in 2020 or early 2021 according to Wayback, somebody said) rather than the FTX side. Alameda would have had the Bay Areans, while FTX’s philanthropic side was constructed (exclusively?) out of Oxfordians.
This is not really a disagreement but rather nitpicking, but I noticed that according to https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/ MIRI did receive a donation from Alameda Research. Not a large one, but some money from the SBF ecosystem arrived at MIRI, apparently. But this does not really contradict the speculations you make about SBF avoiding certain Bay Area people.
Yep, well-picked nit, I was just told about that myself. Perfectly good substantive disagreement with the original thesis, imo, you don’t need to downplay it that much.
It also makes sense that the money would’ve come from the Alameda side (maybe in 2020 or early 2021 according to Wayback, somebody said) rather than the FTX side. Alameda would have had the Bay Areans, while FTX’s philanthropic side was constructed (exclusively?) out of Oxfordians.