Sam Bankman-Fried: commitment

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…To boost pandemic preparedness, you have your million dollars. To whom do you write the check or to what? To whom do I write the check? I will say that I have been giving some funding to an org Guarding Against Pandemics. Conflict of interest note: My brother is heavily involved in it, so take that for what you will. Basically, it’s doing a number of things. The biggest of them is basically lobbying Washington for more spending on pandemic preparedness. There’s actually a lot of interest in doing this, but getting across the finish line is quite difficult. I think that a dollar can turn into way more than that when done effectively there. That’s where I have been giving. The other thing that I would be really excited by — and this one, I don’t have an organization name for — but it’s funding efforts to build up vaccine capacity, vaccine stockpiles, distribution networks, early detection systems, and other things that could be done rapidly, that could be done within a couple days of a new pandemic appearing. Maybe over the next year, I’ll have more actual organization names on that one, none for now. That’s one of the things that I would like heavily to think about doing, and in fact, am doing right now with that marginal dollar or marginal million dollars. As I understand your views, you’re a fairly pure Benthamite utilitarian. Is that correct?…

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