I wonder at what point donations to the SIAI would hit diminishing returns and contributing to another underfunded cause would be more valuable? Suppose for example Bill Gates was going to donate 1.5 billion US$, would my $100 donation still be best placed with the SIAI?
According to the page, they (we) made it to the full $125,000/250,000! Does anyone know what percentage this is of all money the SIAI has raised?
Their annual budget is typically in the range of $500,000, so this would be around half.
I wonder at what point donations to the SIAI would hit diminishing returns and contributing to another underfunded cause would be more valuable? Suppose for example Bill Gates was going to donate 1.5 billion US$, would my $100 donation still be best placed with the SIAI?
Marginal contributions are certainly important to consider, and it’s one of the reasons I mentioned in my original post about why I support them.
Even asteroid discovery, long considered underfunded, is receiving hundreds of millions.