In sixth form, I wore a suit for 2 years. Was fun! Then, got kinda bored of suits

Why does it seem very unlikely?

The companies being merged and working together seems unrealistic. 

the fact that good humans have been able to keep rogue bad humans more-or-less under control

Isn't stuff like the transatlantic slave trade, genocide of native americans, etc evidence that the amount isn't sufficient?? 

Helps me decide which research to focus on

Both. Not sure, its something like lesswrong/EA speak mixed with the VC speak. 

What I liked about applying for VC funding was the specific questions. 

"How is this going to make money?"

"What proof do you have this is going to make money"

and it being clear the bullshit that they wanted was numbers, testimonials from paying customers, unambiguous ways the product was actually better, etc. And then standard bs about progress, security, avoiding weird wibbly wobbly talk, 'woke', 'safety', etc. 

With Alignment funders, they really obviously have language they're looking for as well, or language that makes them more and less willing to put more effort into understanding the proposal. Actually, they have it more than the VCs. But they act as if they don't. 

it's so unnecessarily hard to get funding in alignment.

they say 'Don't Bullshit' but what that actually means is 'Only do our specific kind of bullshit'.

and they don't specify because they want to pretend that they don't have their own bullshit

I would not call this a "Guide". 

It's more a list of recommendations and some thoughts on them.