Hi, thanks for raising these questions. I wanted to confirm that Effective Ventures has seen this and is looking into it. We take our legal obligations seriously and have started an internal review to make sure we know the relevant facts.

Hi Matt - thanks for the suggestion. I agree that we should have a page like this. I’ve asked someone to take this on but we’ve got a lot of things to update at the moment so it won’t go up immediately. In the meantime, CEA’s team page has links to bios for most of the trustees here.

Thanks for the update on this! I don't think I'd heard about it.

"In 1993, he obtained a bachelor's degree in radio from Emerson College in Boston,^[4] where one of his professors was the writer David Foster Wallace"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Burr

Yes — since the first week of the crisis, Nick and Will have been recused from the relevant discussions / decisions on the boards of both EV entities to avoid any potential conflict of interest. Staff in both EV entities were informed about that decision in mid-November.

The 80k podcast also has some potentially relevant episodes though they're prob not directly what you most want.

• https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/phil-trammell-patient-philanthropy/
• https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/will-macaskill-ambition-longtermism-mental-health/
  • Maybe especially the section on patient philanthropy.
• https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/will-macaskill-what-we-owe-the-future/
• https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/sam-bankman-fried-high-risk-approach-to-crypto-and-doing-good/
  • Some bits of this. E.g. some of the bits on political donations.

My guess is that Part II, trajectory changes will have a bunch of relevant stuff. Maybe also a bit of part 5. But unfortunately I don't remember too clearly.

It's been a while since I read it but Joe Carlsmith's series on expected utility might help some. 

[My impression. I haven't worked on grantmaking for a long time.] I think this depends on the topic, size of the grant, technicality of the grant, etc. Some grantmakers are themselves experts. Some grantmakers have experts in house. For technical/complicated grants, I think non-expert grantmakers will usually talk to at least some experts before pulling the trigger but it depends on how clearcut the case for the grant is, how big the grant is, etc.

I think parts of What We Owe the Future by Will MacAskill discuss this approach a bit.