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 Zvi Mowshowitz 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 | 4 | 5,010 | 7,253 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 5,010 | 5,010 | 5,010 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Epistemic institutions | 1 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| AI safety | 3 | 10,000 | 8,337 | 5,010 | 5,010 | 5,010 | 5,010 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
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 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety (filter this donor) | 3 | 1 | 25,010.00 | 10,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 5,010.00 |
| Epistemic institutions (filter this donor) | 1 | 1 | 4,000.00 | 0.00 | 4,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 4 | 2 | 29,010.00 | 10,000.00 | 14,000.00 | 5,010.00 |
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.
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| Subcause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2018 | 2017 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety | 3 | 1 | 25,010.00 | 10,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 5,010.00 |
| Epistemic institutions | 1 | 1 | 4,000.00 | 0.00 | 4,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Classified total | 4 | 2 | 29,010.00 | 10,000.00 | 14,000.00 | 5,010.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 4 | 2 | 29,010.00 | 10,000.00 | 14,000.00 | 5,010.00 |
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 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute (filter this donor) | AI safety | FB Tw WP Site CN GS TW | 25,010.00 | 10,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 5,010.00 |
| Center for Applied Rationality (filter this donor) | Rationality | FB Tw WP Site TW | 4,000.00 | 0.00 | 4,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | -- | -- | 29,010.00 | 10,000.00 | 14,000.00 | 5,010.00 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zvi’s Thoughts on the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) (GW, IR) | 2021-12-14 | Zvi Mowshowitz | LessWrong | Survival and Flourishing Fund Jaan Tallinn Jed McCaleb The Casey and Family Foundation | Effective Altruism Funds:Long-Term Future Fund Center on Long-Term Risk Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters The Centre for Long-Term Resilience Lightcone Infrastructure Effective Altruism Funds: Infrastructure Fund Centre for the Governance of AI Ought New Science Research Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative AI Objectives Institute Topos Institute Emergent Ventures India European Biostasis Foundation Laboratory for Social Minds PrivateARPA Charter Cities Institute | Survival and Flourishing Fund Beth Barnes Oliver Habryka Zvi Mowshowitz | Miscellaneous commentary | Longtermism|AI safety|Global catastrophic risks | In this lengthy post, Zvi Mowshowitz, who was one of the recommenders for the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H2 grant round based on the S-process, describes his experience with the process, his impressions of several of the grantees, and implications for what kinds of grant applications are most likely to succeed. Zvi says that the grant round suffered from the problem of Too Much Money (TMM); there was way more money than any individual recommender felt comfortable granting, and just about enough money for the combined preferences of all recommenders, which meant that any recommender could unilaterally push a particular grantee through. The post has several other observations and attracts several comments. |
| I Vouch For MIRI | 2017-12-17 | Zvi Mowshowitz | Zvi Mowshowitz | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Single donation documentation | AI safety | Mowshowitz explains why he made his $10,000 donation to MIRI, and makes the case for others to support MIRI. He believes that MIRI understands the hardness of the AI safety problem, is focused on building solutions for the long term, and has done humanity a great service through its work on functional decision theory. |
Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donee | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 4) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 10,000.00 | 1 | AI safety | https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/ | -- | ||
| Center for Applied Rationality | 4,000.00 | 4 | Epistemic institutions | https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/12/25/the-story-cfar/ | -- | The document explains the motivation to donate to CFAR in addition to the $10,000 donation to MIRI documented at https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/i-vouch-for-miri/ The reasons for donating to CFAR include: endorsement of rationality improvement, endorsement of CFAR as an organization and its approach to the problem, direct personal benefits, and an especially important time for CFAR because they need enough funding for a venue. | |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 10,000.00 | 1 | AI safety | https://web.archive.org/web/20171223071315/https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/ | -- | The document https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/i-vouch-for-miri/ explains that he believes that MIRI understands the hardness of the AI safety problem, is focused on building solutions for the long term, and has done humanity a great service through its work on functional decision theory. | |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 5,010.00 | 3 | AI safety | https://web.archive.org/web/20150117213932/https://intelligence.org/donortools/topdonors.php | -- |
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