SFF-2020-H1 S-process recommendations announcement
Survival and Flourishing Fund, 2019
Abstract
A group of philanthropists, including Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and the Survival and Flourishing Fund, used a unique grant-making process called the “S-process” to determine the distribution of funds to various organizations working on long-term survival and flourishing of sentient life. The S-process involves recommenders and funders simulating counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. The final grant amounts were determined by numerical inputs representing estimates of the marginal utility of granting to each organization. The philanthropists made some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts, which resulted in a list of grants to organizations such as LessWrong, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and The Future Society. – AI-generated abstract.
