EA Forum Podcast (All audio) “Oliver Habryka on OpenPhil and GoodVentures” by TimothyTelleenLawton
In this episode of our podcast, Elizabeth Van Nostrand and I talk to Oliver Habryka of Lightcone Infrastructure about his thoughts on the Open Philanthropy Project, which he believes has become stifled by the PR interests of its primary funder, Good Ventures.
Oliver's main claim is that around mid 2023 or early 2024, Good Ventures founder Dustin Moskovitz became more concerned about his reputation, and this put a straight jacket over what Open Phil could fund. Moreover it was not enough for a project to be good and pose low reputational risk; it had to be obviously low reputational risk, because OP employees didn’t have enough communication with Good Ventures to pitch exceptions. According to Habryka.
That's a big caveat; this podcast is pretty one sided. We invited OpenPhil to send a representative to record their own episode, but they decided to just send a written response (which is [...]
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First published:
May 2nd, 2025
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.