Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedHolden Karnofsky: belief
3 Jan 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century
“I think even then, the amount of money we'd be working with would be really small by the standards of any kind of government budget.”
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- Holden Karnofsky
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- belief
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- 3 Jan 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Let's say the total amount of money given to EA just increased by an order of magnitude or something. What could be possible at that point that's not possible now? I don't know. I think even then, the amount of money we'd be working with would be really small by the standards of any kind of government budget. In general, with philanthropy, I'm always looking for things where it's like, “Can we see the creation of a field? Can we fund people to introduce new ideas?” But, we're very small compared to the overall economy and the overall government. I think even multiplying everything by 10, that would still be true. I’m not sure exactly what we do with 10x as much money. I'm not even sure what we're going to do with the money that already exists. Yeah, but do you think there will be more billionaires in the future and does that imply you should be spending money faster now if you are?…
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