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to follow up my philanthropic pledge from 2020, i've updated my philanthropy page with the 2024 results. in 2024 my donations funded $51M worth of endpoint grants (plus $2.0M in admin overhead and philanthropic software development). this comfortably exceeded my 2024 commitment of $42M (20k times $2100.00 — the minimum...

to follow up my philantropic pledge from 2020, i've updated my philanthropy page with 2023 results. in 2023 my donations funded $44M worth of endpoint grants ($43.2M excluding software development and admin costs) — exceeding my commitment of $23.8M (20k times $1190.03 — the minimum price of ETH in 2023).

to follow up my philantropic pledge from 2020, i've updated my philanthropy page with 2022 results. in 2022 i made $23M worth of endpoint grants ($22.9M after various admin costs), exceeding my commitment of $19.9M (20k times $993.64 — the minimum price of ETH in 2022).

to follow up my philantropic pledge from 2020, i've updated my philanthropy page with 2021 results. in 2021 i made $22M worth of endpoint grants — exceeding my commitment of $14.4M (20k times $718.11 — the minimum price of ETH in 2021). notes: * this number includes $1.9M to orgs...

This is a collection of follow-up discussions in the wake of Richard Ngo and Eliezer Yudkowsky's Sep. 5–8 and Sep. 14 conversations. Color key: Chat Google Doc content Inline comments 7. Follow-ups to the Ngo/Yudkowsky conversation [Bensinger][1:50] (Nov. 23 follow-up comment) A general background note: Readers who aren't already familiar...

to follow up my philantropic pledge from last year, i've updated my philanthropy page with 2020 results. TL;DR: i made $4.3MM worth of endpoint grants in 2020, mostly via SFF's grant rounds, beating my minimum commitment by about 2x.

for common knowledge, i've prepared a page explaining my philanthropic policies as well as making a concrete commitment for 2020-2024.