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Twelve essays we liked on EA funding, SF fieldbuilding, and decision-relevant forecasting So, when we launched the Manifund Essay Prize, I was looking for a winner for each of three categories. Unfortunately, I liked the submissions too much to choose just three, so here are 12 winners: The Manifund category:...
Manifund is launching a new animal welfare fund, led by regrantor Marcus Abramovitch. We make rapid (<1 week), early-stage ($25k–$150k) grants across animal welfare, with a particular interest in the intersection of animals and transformative AI. Reach out to marcus.s.abramovitch@gmail.com if you’d like to donate! Why AI x animals? Many...
Manifest is back! We're returning to Lighthaven on June 12-14! You can buy your tickets now on the Manifest website, with Early Bird pricing through this Saturday, April 18. What: Manifest is a festival ostensibly about prediction markets, but secretly about connecting with old friends and people you admire from...
We're giving away 100 Aerolamp DevKits, a lamp that kills germs with far-UVC. Are you sick of getting sick in your group house? Want to test out fancy new tech that may revolutionize air safety? Claim your Aerolamp What is far-UVC? Far-UVC is a specific wavelength of ultraviolet light that...
TL;DR: Mox, a community space and incubator in San Francisco, is offering 2x/month complimentary access to members of AI safety orgs, and other causes we admire. Current partners of the Mox Guest Program include: * ARC * MIRI * Elicit * GovAI * FAR AI * Seldon Labs * Tarbell...
Last week, I joined “Revolutionist’s Night” — a cabal aiming to radically improve animal welfare, with some flavor of 1800s slavery abolitionism or the 1700s American revolution. Our topic for the evening was inspired by Aaron Boddy’s post “The current market price for animal welfare is zero”: can we create...
Each year, Manifund partners with regrantors: experts in the field of AI safety, each given an independent budget of $100k+. Regrantors can initiate fast, small grants, seeding early-stage projects with $5k-$50k. For 2025, we’ve raised $2.25m so far, and are excited to announce our first 10 regrantors: * Neel Nanda...