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Scott Alexander posted a survey of utility weights for a bunch of different AI safety accomplishments, discussed more in Towards the Autograntor. The survey asked people to assign point values to AI safety milestones. The values were based on the anchor of 1 million points = a pause with China...
And five projects on Manifund that need money! In our last post we talked about using karma as a signal to surface projects that were worth funding. Karma uses donations, upvotes, and comments as inputs—the obvious next step is to actually read the proposal. So we wanted to know: how...
One common objection to impact-focused for-profits is that for-profits won’t be able to access the incoming torrent of philanthropic funding. But this doesn’t have to be true! There are lots of ways that charitable dollars can be directed to for-profits, and Manifund and other funders do it regularly. There are...
The Falcon Fund, led by Manifund regrantor Marcus Abramovitch, has $500k to give away. (This includes the funds on the Manifund page as well as another $250k committed.) It makes rapid (1-week timescale), early-stage grants in animal welfare, particularly the intersection of animals and transformative AI. The Falcon Fund has...
Austin: I’m happy to announce that Caroline Ellison has accepted a role at Manifund, to develop our funding platform and research how to effectively direct philanthropic dollars. In fact, she started a work trial on July 13, which converted to a fulltime role on Aug 10. Over the past two...
What is Manifund? In What happened to impact markets? Austin laid out a brief history of Manifund and explanation of who and what we are. The perhaps grandiose goal of Manifund is to solve the problem of philanthropic capital allocation. In practice, over a few years, we’ve … done a...
When researching recent projects—impact markets, FundingBench, and AI Safety Funder Bulletin—we kept coming across similar questions that were a bit of a pain to answer. How much money had someone raised, and when? What kind of things was someone funding? So we decided to put together as comprehensive a database...