I think Moskowitz’s funding of malaria nets and Moskowitz’s funding of AI policymakers—both come from the same mistake of thinking like a billionaire instead of thinking like a politician.
The actual bottlenecks to fixing both African politics and US-China geopolitics around AI are not money but political leaders who are skilled in public persuasion, coalition building, finding successors, inventing ideology, etc
Maybe unpopular opinion—I think if Moskowitz knows he can’t become a skilled politician himself, maybe he should spend a few years grooming a successor who can, and then transfer his entire net worth to this person with no conditions attached. Typically such a successor is one’s child, but in this case there’s no time for that (due to short AI timelines).
I think Moskowitz’s funding of malaria nets and Moskowitz’s funding of AI policymakers—both come from the same mistake of thinking like a billionaire instead of thinking like a politician.
The actual bottlenecks to fixing both African politics and US-China geopolitics around AI are not money but political leaders who are skilled in public persuasion, coalition building, finding successors, inventing ideology, etc
Maybe unpopular opinion—I think if Moskowitz knows he can’t become a skilled politician himself, maybe he should spend a few years grooming a successor who can, and then transfer his entire net worth to this person with no conditions attached. Typically such a successor is one’s child, but in this case there’s no time for that (due to short AI timelines).