Update from Open Philanthropy’s Longtermist EA Movement-Building team

Abstract

Open Philanthropy’s Longtermist EA Movement-Building team aims to grow and support the pool of people who are well-positioned to work on longtermist priority projects, such as reducing existential risk and improving the far future. The team has shifted away from focusing on ‘money moved’ figures and has come to prioritize ’time-effectiveness’ over ‘cost-effectiveness’ in most cases. The author argues that in the context of longtermist grantmaking, the scarcer resource is the time of aligned longtermists working on high-priority projects. Thus, the team has begun to prioritize generating additional opportunities and better understanding the field over evaluating existing opportunities. Several potential areas for future grantmaking are discussed, including AI safety-focused meta work, supporting the production of more excellent content on EA, rationality-and-epistemics-focused community-building, making EA ideas and discussion opportunities more accessible outside current EA hubs, and supporting marketing and advertising for high-quality content that discusses ideas important to EA or longtermist projects. – AI-generated abstract.