sacrificing a bunch of OpenPhil AI safety funding in exchange for improving OpenPhil’s ability to influence politics seems like a pretty reasonable trade
Sacrificing half of it to avoid things associated with one of the two major political parties and being deceptive about doing this is of course not equal to half the cost of sacrificing all of such funding, it is a much more unprincipled and distorting and actively deceptive decision that messes up everyone’s maps of the world in a massive way and reduces our ability to trust each other or understand what is happening.
Sacrificing half of it to avoid things associated with one of the two major political parties and being deceptive about doing this is of course not equal to half the cost of sacrificing all of such funding, it is a much more unprincipled and distorting and actively deceptive decision that messes up everyone’s maps of the world in a massive way and reduces our ability to trust each other or understand what is happening.