AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
Disclaimer: Although I work on the Groups Team at CEA, I’m writing this in a personal capacity, and this post does not constitute an endorsement by CEA.
Agency - the realisation that you really can just do things.
TL;DR
Biosecurity needs people (of any background) who are agentic and have a high execution velocity and track record....
If there's so much EA-ish money coming, how does one "put out buckets" to collect it?
I am very concerned about relative cause prioritization among the alleged wave of philanthropy. (Personally, I expect it to me smaller than many do.) How does one shape this? For example, I really want efforts of the shape "raise the salience of AI pause as a political issue among the US public, particularly the religious mainstream." How do I influence the amount of funding that goes to that, if there's a big anticipated wave?
Write convincingly about it then get it featured prominently somewhere the donors, or people they trust, already read.
Such as, for example, the Effective Altruism Forum :)