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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg cover image

Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Challenges of Centralization in the EA Funding Landscape

In practice, the big funders have positions on how to do the most good because that's sort of their purpose. But that also means that to get money from them, you have to be at least somewhat aligned with their view about how to do good. And I think this is a bottleneck that could be relieved by having more funders with slightly different perspectives in the space. In some ways, it's not so much like if you have a startup, you kind of have to find some VC that's excited about your startup to fund it.

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