I think this is broadly correct. My sense is that funders in the space are starting to think about what to do in light of Anthropic dollars, but not a lot of concrete things have started happening yet.
Beyond other e2g folks starting to donate more now, I think other things that start to make sense include:
Fieldbuilding now (eg new orgs, incubators, fellowships, recruiting, outreach) so that the funds have good opportunities to go to
Designing funding institutions that scale to handle 10x to 100x the number dollars, and also the number of “principals” (since I expect, as opposed to OP having a single Dustin, Anthropic will produce something like 50-100 folks with 10Ms-100Ms to donate)
Revisiting ideas from the FTX Future Fund era: prizes, for-profit norms, ambitious scaleable uses of funds, moonshots
I’d be especially interested in Angel investors funding early stage EA-aligned high risk moonshots that will need Series A funding in a year if successful—but it likely requires risk neutral, low regret funders, or people funding an entire portfolio, both of which are rare.
Designing funding institutions that scale to handle 10x to 100x the number dollars, and also the number of “principals” (since I expect, as opposed to OP having a single Dustin, Anthropic will produce something like 50-100 folks with 10Ms-100Ms to donate)
Seems plausible that a decent part of Coefficient Giving’s new strategy exactly supports this model.
I think this is broadly correct. My sense is that funders in the space are starting to think about what to do in light of Anthropic dollars, but not a lot of concrete things have started happening yet.
Beyond other e2g folks starting to donate more now, I think other things that start to make sense include:
Fieldbuilding now (eg new orgs, incubators, fellowships, recruiting, outreach) so that the funds have good opportunities to go to
Designing funding institutions that scale to handle 10x to 100x the number dollars, and also the number of “principals” (since I expect, as opposed to OP having a single Dustin, Anthropic will produce something like 50-100 folks with 10Ms-100Ms to donate)
Revisiting ideas from the FTX Future Fund era: prizes, for-profit norms, ambitious scaleable uses of funds, moonshots
I’d be especially interested in Angel investors funding early stage EA-aligned high risk moonshots that will need Series A funding in a year if successful—but it likely requires risk neutral, low regret funders, or people funding an entire portfolio, both of which are rare.
Seems plausible that a decent part of Coefficient Giving’s new strategy exactly supports this model.