For someone generally familiar with CFAR, who thinks they do good work, but wasn’t sure how they rank compared to x-risk opportunities, I think the most salient takeaways from this were.
Now that we have a lot of people relyin on each other for information, and in particular we have OpenPhil that doesn’t fund anything for more than 50% of their budget (I think with good reason), there’s some reason to donate rougly proportionately of what you think OpenPhil should be funding things at.
CFAR, in addition to doing generally good work, is trying to purchase a building that’d allow them to run workshops with almost-zero-marginal-cost, allowing them to try much more experimental workshops. This seems high value in general, and in particular if you think experimental workshops are where most of CFAR’s value lies.
For someone generally familiar with CFAR, who thinks they do good work, but wasn’t sure how they rank compared to x-risk opportunities, I think the most salient takeaways from this were.
Now that we have a lot of people relyin on each other for information, and in particular we have OpenPhil that doesn’t fund anything for more than 50% of their budget (I think with good reason), there’s some reason to donate rougly proportionately of what you think OpenPhil should be funding things at.
CFAR, in addition to doing generally good work, is trying to purchase a building that’d allow them to run workshops with almost-zero-marginal-cost, allowing them to try much more experimental workshops. This seems high value in general, and in particular if you think experimental workshops are where most of CFAR’s value lies.