SFF-2021-H1-process recommendations announcement
Survival and Flourishing Fund, 2021
Abstract
In the first half of 2021, a grant-making process called the “S-process” was conducted, involving six recommenders and two funders (Jaan Tallinn and Jed McCaleb). The S-process entailed using a table of marginal utility functions to simulate numerous counterfactual donation scenarios. Each recommender specified utility functions for funding each application and adjusted them through discussions. Final grant recommendations were influenced by numerical inputs representing estimates of the marginal utility of granting to each organization. The abstract details the recipients, amounts, and purposes of the finalized grants, emphasizing that not all grants may materialize due to logistical challenges or time constraints. Additionally, there could be additional grants not listed that resulted from shared information during the S-process but were not fully endorsed by all recommenders. – AI-generated abstract.
