SFF-2021-H2 S-process recommendations announcement

Abstract

This document details the S-process, a grant-recommendation system used in the second half of 2021 by the Survival and Flourishing.Fund (SFF). The S-process involves allowing recommenders and funders to simulate counterfactual delegation scenarios using marginal value functions. Recommenders specify a marginal value function for funding each application, and adjust those functions through discussions with each other. Funders specify and adjust different value functions for deferring to each recommender. The document lists the final endorsed recommendations of this round of the S-process, which resulted from numerical inputs from both funders and recommenders. The S-process is designed to generally favor funding things that at least one recommender is excited to fund, rather than things that every recommender is excited to fund. The document also discusses freedoms compatible with the S-process, such as the right of funders to make grants that the S-process did not endorse. The document ends by explaining the sharing policies of the recommender input documents. – AI-generated abstract.