“Review of Past Grants: The $100.000 Grant for a Video Game?” by Nicolae

Since 2017, EA Funds has been providing grants across four distinct cause areas. While there are payout reports available, there is a lack of reports detailing the outcomes of these grants, so I delved out of curiosity into the Grants Database to review some of the proposals that received funding and evaluate their outcomes.

Some of the findings were quite unexpected, particularly for the Long-Term Future Fund and the EA Infrastructure Fund.

The case involving a $100.000 grant for a video game

In July 2022, EA approved a $100,000 grant to Lone Pine Games, LLC, for developing and marketing a video game designed to explain the Stop Button Problem to the public and STEM professionals.

Outcomes from looking into Lone Pine Games, LLC:

1. After almost two years, there are no online mentions of such a game being developed by this company, except for the note on the [...]

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First published:
June 3rd, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7Dp9phDw28h3dbAns/review-of-past-grants-the-usd100-000-grant-for-a-video-game

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