I’m not sure about funding-size, but, one think to note is there’s government agencies and I think more government funding now.
I think the deal is we’re bottlenecked on vetting/legitimacy/legibility (and still will be in a couple years, by default). If you’re a billionaire, and aren’t really sure what would meaningfully help, right now it may feel like a more obvious move to found a company that do donations.
But I think “donate substantially to a thing you think is good and write up your reasons for thinking that thing is good”, is pretty useful. (If you do a good job with the writeup, I bet you get a noticeable multiplier on the donation target, somewhat via redirection and somewhat via getting more people to donate at all)
This does require being a more active philanthropist who’s treating it a bit more like a job. But I think if you have the sort of money the OP is talking about, it’s probably worth prioritizing that. But even if you’re not, I think we’re just bottlenecked on time so much more than money.
I’m not sure about funding-size, but, one think to note is there’s government agencies and I think more government funding now.
I think the deal is we’re bottlenecked on vetting/legitimacy/legibility (and still will be in a couple years, by default). If you’re a billionaire, and aren’t really sure what would meaningfully help, right now it may feel like a more obvious move to found a company that do donations.
But I think “donate substantially to a thing you think is good and write up your reasons for thinking that thing is good”, is pretty useful. (If you do a good job with the writeup, I bet you get a noticeable multiplier on the donation target, somewhat via redirection and somewhat via getting more people to donate at all)
This does require being a more active philanthropist who’s treating it a bit more like a job. But I think if you have the sort of money the OP is talking about, it’s probably worth prioritizing that. But even if you’re not, I think we’re just bottlenecked on time so much more than money.