I asked a ton of questions about effective altruism and SBF's giving, such as:
Why he created a new EA philanthropic org instead of just donating to Open Philanthropy.
How he deals with adverse selection in the projects he gets proposed?
What would be the scenario in which he feels Future Fund didn't live up to its potential?
When is it best to donate directly and when is it better to influence the government to make something happen?
Are EA causes multiplicative?
How does he hedge against the possibility that utilitarianism is wrong in his giving?
Should we think of his charitable giving as a yearly contribution of a billion dollars or as a 30 billion hedge against the possibility that there's going to be some existential risk that requires a large pool of liquid wealth?
I also asked a bunch of questions about crypto, FTX, leadership, hiring, and scaling.
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TL;DR
NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing intimate partner violence through edutainment, in our case a serialised radio drama. Over the past two years we have produced and aired two seasons in Rwanda.
We are currently evaluating our second season through a randomized controlled trial with 2,400 couples in Rwanda in partnership wi...
TL;DR
* The Long-Term Future Fund is closing down, and EA Funds is launching the Transformative AI Fund with a new full-time team.
* The fund's primary focus is technical AI safety and AI governance (including post-AGI governance), as well as supporting fields such as field-building and forecasting. We'll also consider non-GCR implications of transformative AI such as flourishing futures and digital...
The current Long Term Future Fund (LTFF) fund managers and I have decided to step back from our work on the LTFF. Because we believe LTFF donors trusted the fund managers to ensure that the funds would be used in line with the purposes of their donation, we've decided the right move is to close the fund.
While LTFF is closing, note that EA Funds has launched a new fund...
I enjoyed this. You got Sam to say that's a really good question several questions in a row!