Summary: Anthropic has many employees with an EA-ish outlook, who may
soon have a lot of money. If you also have that kind of outlook, money
donated sooner will likely be much higher impact.
It's December, and I'm trying to figure out how much to donate. This is usually a
straightforward question: give 50%. But this
year I'm considering dipping into savings.
There are many EAs and EA-informed employees at Anthropic, which has
been very successful and is reportedly
considering an
IPO. The Manifold
market estimates a median IPO date of June 2027:
At a floated $300B valuation and many EAs among their early employees,
the amount of additional funding could be in the billions. Efforts
I'd most want to support may become less constrained by money than
capacity: as I've experienced in running the NAO, scaling programs takes time.
This means donations now seem more valuable; ones that help
organizations get into a position to productively apply further
funding especially so.
In retrospect I wish I'd been able to support 80,000 Hours more substantially
before Open Philanthropy Coefficient
Giving began funding them; this time, with more ability to see
what's likely [...]
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First published:
December 3rd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oJM6TmFLwsHrBfRpk/front-load-giving-because-of-anthropic-donors
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