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The FTX Future Fund needs to slow down
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Written in September 2022 shortly before FTX's collapse, this post is historically notable as an early external critique of FTX Future Fund's spending pace, relevant to discussions of EA funding dynamics and governance failures.
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Summary
Trevor Klee argues that the FTX Future Fund's rapid deployment of massive philanthropic capital creates harmful second-order effects, including attracting opportunistic actors to the EA community and risking counterproductive use of funds. Written in September 2022, before FTX's collapse, the post advocates for slower, more deliberate philanthropic decision-making prioritizing wisdom over speed.
Key Points
- •Rapid large-scale philanthropic spending can attract opportunistic actors seeking money rather than genuinely mission-aligned contributors to EA.
- •Fast capital deployment risks not just waste but actively counterproductive outcomes, undermining the longtermist goals the Fund aims to achieve.
- •The author supports the Fund's existential risk focus but argues the pace of spending outstrips the organization's wisdom to spend it well.
- •Examples like $500k opinion-change prizes and prediction market tournaments illustrate the unusual and potentially distortive incentive structures being created.
- •Published just weeks before FTX's collapse, the piece proved prescient about systemic risks of SBF-funded EA philanthropy.
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