Long Term Future Fund
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Long Term Future Fund is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between December 28, 2021 and December 08, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “via the Long Term Future Fund: This is an EA grants program”; “…via the Long Term Future Fund: This is an EA grants program that volunteered to evaluate and judge all applications that had anything to do with AI or the rationalist and effective altruist communities”; “the correct course was to fund global poverty and ask the Long Term Future Fund to fund the AI safety one”. It most often appears alongside ACX Grants, ACX, ACX Grants.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: December 28, 2021
- Last seen: December 08, 2023
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- ACX Grants (3 shared issues)
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- effective altruism (2 shared issues)
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- Emergent Ventures (2 shared issues)
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- GiveWell (2 shared issues)
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- Stanford (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
…via the Long Term Future Fund: This is an EA grants program that volunteered to evaluate and judge all applications that had anything to do with AI or the rationalist and effective altruist communities. They have more grant-making expertise and more money than I do, so I was happy to send those applications their way without considering them further. If you sent in an AI or rationalist/EA community-related grant and didn’t see your name above, don’t despair! LTFF hasn’t made their decisions yet, so I’m not able to announce these at the same time as the others. When they’re done, I’ll make sure you know.
How is this actionable? First, sometimes I was able to ask the big experienced foundations if they’d seen a grant application, and if so what they thought. But second, if I had a great global poverty proposal and a great AI safety proposal, and I thought they were both equally valuable, the correct course was to fund global poverty and ask the Long Term Future Fund to fund the AI safety one.
(what actually happened was that the Long Term Future Fund approached me and said “we will fund every single good AI-related proposal you get, just hand them to us, you don’t have to worry about it”. Then I had another person say “hand me the ones Long Term Future Fund doesn’t want, and I’ll fund those.” Have I mentioned it’s a good time to start AI related charities?)
2: This season’s grants from EA charity Long Term Future Fund include $71,000 to Solomon Sia for “providing consultation and recommendations on changes to the US regulatory environment for prediction markets”.
The Long Term Future Fund
Long Term Future Fund and Survival and Flourishing Fund focus on the long-term future, including but not limited to AI safety, forecasting, and long-termist community building. EA Infrastructure Fund focuses on EA community-building. You can find previous lists of grants funded by LTFF, EAIF, SFF, and ACXG.