Lightcone is banned from receiving any kind of OpenPhil funding
Why?
The reason for the ban is pretty crux-y. Are Lighitcone banned because OpenPhil dislikes you, or because you’re too close so that would be a conflict of interests, or something else.
Good Ventures have banned OpenPhil from recommending grants to organizations working in the “rationalist community building” space (including for their non-”rationalist community building” work). I understand this to be because Dustin doesn’t believe in that work and feels he suffers a bunch of reputational damage for funding it (IIRC, he said he’d be willing to suffer that reputational damage if he was personally excited by it). Lots more detail on the discussion on this post.
Why?
The reason for the ban is pretty crux-y. Are Lighitcone banned because OpenPhil dislikes you, or because you’re too close so that would be a conflict of interests, or something else.
Good Ventures have banned OpenPhil from recommending grants to organizations working in the “rationalist community building” space (including for their non-”rationalist community building” work). I understand this to be because Dustin doesn’t believe in that work and feels he suffers a bunch of reputational damage for funding it (IIRC, he said he’d be willing to suffer that reputational damage if he was personally excited by it). Lots more detail on the discussion on this post.