One question is, are the marginal grants a lot less effective than the average grant?
Given their current relationship to EA funds, you likely should consider LTFF if and only if you both want to focus on AI existential risk via regrants and also want to empower and strengthen the existing EA formal structures and general ways of being.
That’s not my preference, but it could be yours.
As I understood it cG defunded LTFF and also LTFF has very little money and is fairly Habryka influenced, so this seems missing the mark?
I think it’s not crazy. The LTFF is pretty constrained in what it can fund due to CEA, and also I really wouldn’t predict a future in which EA Funds is more independent from CEA than it is now (indeed, the trajectory is CEA more directly controlling both the LTFF and EA Funds more broadly).
I currently think that this assessment is off in-expectation for something like the next 6 months of LTFF’s existence, which includes basically all marginal funding right now, so I do think I agree with you, but if anyone was considering donating larger amounts to the LTFF, I think they should expect that to constitute a pretty direct bet on existing EA formal structures and general ways of being.
As I understood it cG defunded LTFF and also LTFF has very little money and is fairly Habryka influenced, so this seems missing the mark?
I think it’s not crazy. The LTFF is pretty constrained in what it can fund due to CEA, and also I really wouldn’t predict a future in which EA Funds is more independent from CEA than it is now (indeed, the trajectory is CEA more directly controlling both the LTFF and EA Funds more broadly).
I currently think that this assessment is off in-expectation for something like the next 6 months of LTFF’s existence, which includes basically all marginal funding right now, so I do think I agree with you, but if anyone was considering donating larger amounts to the LTFF, I think they should expect that to constitute a pretty direct bet on existing EA formal structures and general ways of being.