From 29b2c8d66d1152899da57c914372311d2596174d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leopold Tal G Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:30:15 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] tweak: add alt-text to plots --- blog/2022/11/20/brief-update-ea-funding/index.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/2022/11/20/brief-update-ea-funding/index.md b/blog/2022/11/20/brief-update-ea-funding/index.md index 55e672e..6bbc544 100644 --- a/blog/2022/11/20/brief-update-ea-funding/index.md +++ b/blog/2022/11/20/brief-update-ea-funding/index.md @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ Some data on the stock of EA™ funding Open Philanthropy's allocation of funding through time looks as follows: -![](https://i.imgur.com/RwD1pP9.png) +![Bar graph of OpenPhil allocation by year. Global health leads for most years. Catastrophic risks are usually second since 2017. Overall spend increases over time.](https://i.imgur.com/RwD1pP9.png) Dustin Moskovitz's wealth looks, per [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/dustin-a-moskovitz), like this: -![](https://i.imgur.com/cObIgOQ.png) +![Line chart of Dustin Moskovitz's wealth over time, with a dip in 2019 and a peak in 2021.](https://i.imgur.com/cObIgOQ.png) If we plot the two together, we don't see that much of a correlation: -![](https://i.imgur.com/NhhiLqd.png) +![Combination of the previous two charts. Moskovitz's fortune does not match changes in total spend or category composition.](https://i.imgur.com/NhhiLqd.png) Holden Karnofsky, head of Open Philanthropy, [writes](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mCCutDxCavtnhxhBR/some-comments-on-recent-ftx-related-events) that the Blomberg estimates might not be all that accurate: @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ In mid 2022, Forbes put Sam Bankman-Fried's wealth at [$24B](https://www.forbes. The analysis becomes a bit more interesting if we look only at longtermism and GCRs: -![](https://i.imgur.com/OZwHMtV.png) +![Bar graph of OpenPhil allocation to catastrophic risks by year. AI leads most years, followed by biosecurity.](https://i.imgur.com/OZwHMtV.png) In contrast, per [Forbes](https://web.archive.org/web/20221116022228/https://fortune.com/2022/11/14/balkman-fried-ftx-collapse-threatens-effective-altruism-billions-charity-philanthropy/), the FTX Foundation had given out $160M by September 2022. My sense is that most (say, maybe 50% to 80%) of those grants went to "longtermist" cause areas, broadly defined. In addition, SBF and other FTX employees led a $580M funding round for [Anthropic](https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/2022/05/05/314319/ftx-ceo-leads-580m-series-b-round-anthropic)