Animal Charity Evaluators also has the Animal Advocacy Research Fund which has $1,000,000 to give out over 3 years to fund research, which you should probably count as money spent on exploration.
Depending on what you mean by ‘direct work’, x-risk orgs could also be counted as currently doing mostly exploration, or at least don’t fit very neatly into the dichotomy. Still even with these additions I doubt this would raise it above ~$20 million a year, which would probably not be enough to change your conclusion.
I’m unsure where the balance should lie quantitatively. I think that $100 million would probably be too much, and $10 million is probably too low.
I agree that x-risk work doesn’t fit nicely into this: it’s not even clear whether you’d want to count the output of research as “actually” what you want or as VoI.
Good post!
Animal Charity Evaluators also has the Animal Advocacy Research Fund which has $1,000,000 to give out over 3 years to fund research, which you should probably count as money spent on exploration.
Depending on what you mean by ‘direct work’, x-risk orgs could also be counted as currently doing mostly exploration, or at least don’t fit very neatly into the dichotomy. Still even with these additions I doubt this would raise it above ~$20 million a year, which would probably not be enough to change your conclusion.
I’m unsure where the balance should lie quantitatively. I think that $100 million would probably be too much, and $10 million is probably too low.
I agree that x-risk work doesn’t fit nicely into this: it’s not even clear whether you’d want to count the output of research as “actually” what you want or as VoI.