I’m a grantmaker at Longview. I agree there isn’t great public evidence that we’re doing useful work. I’d be happy to share a lot more information about our work with people who are strongly considering donating >$100K to AI safety or closely advising people who might do that.
Thanks for engaging! What are the disadvantages of having information about your recommendations generally available? There might be some which are sensitive, but most will be harmless, and having more eyes seems beneficial. Both from getting more cognition to help notice things, and, more importantly, for people who might end up getting to advise donors but are not yet.
My guess is a fair few people have forwarded you HNWIs without having much read on the object level grantmaking suggestions you tend to give (and some of those people would not have known in advance that they would get to advise the individual, so your current policy couldn’t help), and that feels.. unhealthy, for something like epistemic virtue reasons.
Also, I bet people would be able to give higher quality (and therefore more+more successful) recommendations to HNWIs to talk with you if they had grounded evidence of what grants you suggest.
I’m a grantmaker at Longview. I agree there isn’t great public evidence that we’re doing useful work. I’d be happy to share a lot more information about our work with people who are strongly considering donating >$100K to AI safety or closely advising people who might do that.
Thanks for engaging! What are the disadvantages of having information about your recommendations generally available? There might be some which are sensitive, but most will be harmless, and having more eyes seems beneficial. Both from getting more cognition to help notice things, and, more importantly, for people who might end up getting to advise donors but are not yet.
My guess is a fair few people have forwarded you HNWIs without having much read on the object level grantmaking suggestions you tend to give (and some of those people would not have known in advance that they would get to advise the individual, so your current policy couldn’t help), and that feels.. unhealthy, for something like epistemic virtue reasons.
Also, I bet people would be able to give higher quality (and therefore more+more successful) recommendations to HNWIs to talk with you if they had grounded evidence of what grants you suggest.