Update: Nick’s recent comment on the EA Forum sure suggests there is a high level of funging, though maybe not 100%, and that giving a very large amount of money to EA Funds to some extent may cause him to redirect his attention from allocating Open Phil money to allocating EA Funds money. (This seems basically reasonable on Nick’s part.) So it’s not obvious that an extra dollar of giving to EA Funds corresponds to anything like an extra dollar of spending within that focus area.
Overall I expect *lots* of things like that, not just in the areas where people have asked questions publicly.
I don’t understand why this is evidence that “EA Funds (other than the global health and development one) currently funges heavily with GiveWell recommended charities”, which was Howie’s original question. It seems like evidence that donations to OpenPhil (which afaik cannot be made by individual donors) funge against donations to the long-term future EA fund.
Update: Nick’s recent comment on the EA Forum sure suggests there is a high level of funging, though maybe not 100%, and that giving a very large amount of money to EA Funds to some extent may cause him to redirect his attention from allocating Open Phil money to allocating EA Funds money. (This seems basically reasonable on Nick’s part.) So it’s not obvious that an extra dollar of giving to EA Funds corresponds to anything like an extra dollar of spending within that focus area.
Overall I expect *lots* of things like that, not just in the areas where people have asked questions publicly.
I don’t understand why this is evidence that “EA Funds (other than the global health and development one) currently funges heavily with GiveWell recommended charities”, which was Howie’s original question. It seems like evidence that donations to OpenPhil (which afaik cannot be made by individual donors) funge against donations to the long-term future EA fund.
The definitions of and boundaries between Open Phil, GiveWell, and Good Ventures, as financial or decisionmaking entities, are not clear.