And do you have any idea how the numbers for total funding break down into different cause areas? That seems important for reasoning about this.
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I think I often hear longtermists discuss funding in EA and use the 22 Bil number from OpenPhilanthropy. And I think people often make some implicit mental move thinking that’s also the money dedicated to longtermism- even though my understanding is very much that that’s not all available to longtermism.
In the recent podcast with Alexander Berger, he estimates it’ll be split roughly 50:50 longtermism vs. global health and wellbeing.
This means that the funding available to global health and wellbeing has also grown a lot too, since Dustin Moskovitz’s net worth has gone from $8bn to $25bn.
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I think I often hear longtermists discuss funding in EA and use the 22 Bil number from OpenPhilanthropy. And I think people often make some implicit mental move thinking that’s also the money dedicated to longtermism- even though my understanding is very much that that’s not all available to longtermism.
In the recent podcast with Alexander Berger, he estimates it’ll be split roughly 50:50 longtermism vs. global health and wellbeing.
This means that the funding available to global health and wellbeing has also grown a lot too, since Dustin Moskovitz’s net worth has gone from $8bn to $25bn.