Jacob Steinhardt donations made to Effective Altruism Funds: Long-Term Future Fund

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Basic donor information

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Country United States
Facebook username jacob.steinhardt
LinkedIn username jacob-steinhardt-a30437bb
Twitter usernamejacobsteinhardt
LessWrong usernamejsteinhardt
Effective Altruism Forum usernamejsteinhardt
GitHub usernamejsteinha
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteManual (no scripts used)
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?person=Jacob+Steinhardt

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Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 1 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225
Longtermism 1 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225 11,225

Donation amounts by cause area and year

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Cause area Number of donations Total 2021
Longtermism (filter this donor) 1 11,225.00 11,225.00
Total 1 11,225.00 11,225.00

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Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 1)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
11,225.0012021-06-23Longtermismhttps://bounded-regret.ghost.io/donations-19-20/-- Intended use of funds (category): Regranting

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The donation post says: "The Long-Term Future Fund funds technical or conceptual research oriented towards safeguarding the long-term future of humanity. They are actively managed and mostly give small grants to individual researchers or small organizations, an approach which I think has the potential for high impact. While some of the areas they focus on, such as safe AI, are not primarily cash-constrained, I think LTFF does a good job of identifying instances where cash can actually help. In some cases, they made grants that I was initially skeptical of but that in retrospect seemed like good ideas. I therefore trust their judgment to align reasonably well with what I would conclude after significant investigation."

Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The reason that only about half of the 51% allocation for the long-term future was to the Long-Term Future Fund was described in the donation post as follows: "On the other hand, they mostly do not fund policy-related work, and I think that good AI policy, especially surrounding international conflict and arms races, could be very important for humanity's long-term future. I therefore split my donations in this area in half between these two directions." It also includes context on the total amount ($45,000): "Each year I aim to donate around 10% of my income. [...] The impact of COVID-19 on poor countries made me better appreciate how much better I have it than most of the world, so I tried to donate closer to 20% of my 2020 income, and that will be my goal moving forward as well. Between 2019 and 2020, this came out to $45,000 in total."
Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 25.00%

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): The donation post says: "Each year I aim to donate around 10% of my income. In 2019, I fell behind on this, probably due to the chaos of COVID-19 (but really this was just an embarassing logistical failure on my part). I've recently, finally, finished processing donations for 2019 and 2020."

Donor thoughts on making further donations to the donee: The donation post says: "In retrospect, I think LTFF probably put significantly more effort than I did into evaluating all of the organizations I looked at, as well as several others, when deciding on their grant allocations. Therefore, in the future I would probably just allocate [all my long-term future donations] to LTFF and trust their decision-making. I feel somewhat worried about this, because if everyone pursues this strategy then it would concentrate grant-making in a small number of organizations, which could distort the overall funding ecosystem. That being said, I think the ultimate solution is to have other competitors to LTFF, rather than making low-information decisions as an individual. My hope is that funding them generously this year will help incentivize the creation of other strong grantmaking organizations."