Thanks.

Yes.  

Yeah that's basically it.  Money they get is ONLY spent on defeating this bill. 

Yes it was stripped from the earliest senate version but might be added back. 

Post Anthropic funding we'll probably have about 50 billion dollars a year.  Now, that's not enough to sponsor every conceivable project that will make the world better, but it is enough to sponsor the main portfolio of the highest-impact projects.  

Even if future people matter .001% as much as present people, the argument for SL goes through.  

Also, it just seems bizarre that the moral importance of a person would depend on when in time they exist.  If someone time-traveled back from the future to the present, would it start being 100x worse for them to stub their toe? 

I'm not sure I quite get what you're saying.  The point is just that if actions have positive EV and impact on the order of 10^50 lives potentially, that is very likely to swamp other positive actions.  

So cool!

Awesome post!

Note the U.S. hasn't had 10+% GDP growth since the great depression.  But yeah I'd be happy to take some bets about this--north of 5% for instance.