This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
We do not have any donor information for the donor Joshua Fox in our system.
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 17 | 360 | 702 | 20 | 40 | 100 | 120 | 240 | 360 | 360 | 490 | 600 | 1,529 | 6,000 |
| AI safety | 17 | 360 | 702 | 20 | 40 | 100 | 120 | 240 | 360 | 360 | 490 | 600 | 1,529 | 6,000 |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
| Cause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety (filter this donor) | 17 | 1 | 11,934.00 | 360.00 | 2,040.00 | 1,310.00 | 105.00 | 490.00 | 1,529.00 | 6,100.00 |
| Total | 17 | 1 | 11,934.00 | 360.00 | 2,040.00 | 1,310.00 | 105.00 | 490.00 | 1,529.00 | 6,100.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given subcause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Subcause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety | 17 | 1 | 11,934.00 | 360.00 | 2,040.00 | 1,310.00 | 105.00 | 490.00 | 1,529.00 | 6,100.00 |
| Classified total | 17 | 1 | 11,934.00 | 360.00 | 2,040.00 | 1,310.00 | 105.00 | 490.00 | 1,529.00 | 6,100.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 17 | 1 | 11,934.00 | 360.00 | 2,040.00 | 1,310.00 | 105.00 | 490.00 | 1,529.00 | 6,100.00 |
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (cumulative)
| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute (filter this donor) | AI safety | FB Tw WP Site CN GS TW | 11,934.00 | 360.00 | 2,040.00 | 1,310.00 | 105.00 | 490.00 | 1,529.00 | 6,100.00 |
| Total | -- | -- | 11,934.00 | 360.00 | 2,040.00 | 1,310.00 | 105.00 | 490.00 | 1,529.00 | 6,100.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating the feasibility of SI's plan (GW, IR) | 2013-01-10 | Joshua Fox | LessWrong | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Evaluator review of donee | AI safety | This blog post, co-authored with Kaj Sotala, gives a simplified description of the plan being followed by the Singularity Institute (SI), the former name of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). It is critical of SI for focusing on its "perfect" friendly AI, and suggests that more focus be given to improving the safety of existing systems in development, such as OpenCog. In a reply comment, Eliezer notes that the "heuristic safety" that the blog post suggests focusing on is difficult, that people overestimate the feasibility of heuristic safety ideas, and that trying for a safety approach that seems highly likely to succeed is the best way to guard against safety approaches that are doomed to fail. There is further discussion in the comments from Wei Dai, Gwern, and a cryptography researcher. |
Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
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