If someone currently has a monthly donation going to FHI, is it worth them contacting Oxford & asking for the donation to be registered against FutureTech instead? I imagine it would be more in need of funding than FHI right now as it’s just starting but maybe it already has a big donor.
I wanted to leave this, but it’s been preying on my mind. I’m sure you meant well & with the upvotes it’s getting I’m probably misreading it so hopefully someone will correct my perceptions.
In context of what it was answering, to me it reads “Non-rich readers, your donation’s not really needed at FHI and FutureTech, fund us instead!”
Score one for my new LW-gained instinct for dragging things I really don’t want to think about into the open and throwing a spotlight on them.
I know SIAI specifically gains benefit from having a certain amount of money come from smaller donors. If there is real utility being misplaced here, and I imagine those directly involved with SIAI or FHI might not be able to bring up the subject for obvious reasons, the rest of us need to take the initiative and talk about it.
If this is something that Really Must Not Be Spoken, someone from SIAI send me a PM, I’ll trust your judgement & delete this comment no questions asked.
How is this funded?
If someone currently has a monthly donation going to FHI, is it worth them contacting Oxford & asking for the donation to be registered against FutureTech instead? I imagine it would be more in need of funding than FHI right now as it’s just starting but maybe it already has a big donor.
As I understand it, both FHI and FutureTech are funded mostly by their founder, superhero James Martin.
I wanted to leave this, but it’s been preying on my mind. I’m sure you meant well & with the upvotes it’s getting I’m probably misreading it so hopefully someone will correct my perceptions.
In context of what it was answering, to me it reads “Non-rich readers, your donation’s not really needed at FHI and FutureTech, fund us instead!”
Score one for my new LW-gained instinct for dragging things I really don’t want to think about into the open and throwing a spotlight on them.
I know SIAI specifically gains benefit from having a certain amount of money come from smaller donors. If there is real utility being misplaced here, and I imagine those directly involved with SIAI or FHI might not be able to bring up the subject for obvious reasons, the rest of us need to take the initiative and talk about it.
If this is something that Really Must Not Be Spoken, someone from SIAI send me a PM, I’ll trust your judgement & delete this comment no questions asked.
No, that’s not something I meant to communicate. On funding SIAI vs. FHI, Nick and I have already spoken.
It’s called the Oxford Martin Program, and Martin is the billionaire or near-billionaire who is the main donor to FHI.