I made claude do some quick maths:

Apparently, even $1 invested into Situational Awareness LP 6 months ago is worth $1.78 now. Totally possible he is not a savant whisperer and had enough knowledge and connections to make great bets, but the bets are still paying off. Time will tell if their hedging strategy is actually sound or just lucky. 

But I don't think this is comparable to FTX or contains any lessons for the EA community. Is Situational Awareness LP an EA venture? I could be wrong but I don't think so. I have always thought of it as "oh I guess Aschenbrenner is doing his own thing, cool."

However, it is objectively nuts to put a 24-year-old with no experience in charge of a $50B hedge fund.

? It is his fund. He started it.

I feel with the FTX and rat culture reflection, you are reading into the situation too much.

The losses, as you pointed out, happened due to highly leveraged bets. He didn't expect memory stocks to bleed as much as they did. Besides, it is possible that the fund will survive because his core thesis has paid off exceptionally well so far. He also has a rumored $5B equity stake in a certain large AI company. 

Tough time for Situational Awareness LP, but I hope they make it!

Which sources of funding would you recommend for those interested in generalist EA community building? 2/3 examples are AIS-related for which there are overwhelming sums of funding available (and they are doing work that is better not done at CEA anyway). 

I was beyond excited to read NEST's introductory announcement last month. Curious how they are funded, because I thought OP is no longer super interested in EA community building.

Because those approximately 10,000 pre-existing web forum software packages are generic / bad and the EA forum has unique features like upvotes, agree-votes, karma, the user map, polls, moderation norms, cause area wikis ... 

The rest of us are generally resigned to biological humans disappearing once we have transformative AI

Do you mean TAI or the singularity? Or are those synonyms in your personal dictionary? 

When people say TAI, I think of OpenPhil's old article which seems to no longer have a live link, ugh!

Dare I say that non-native english speakers have the most to gain by going through the pain of writing english not well! But I like and endorse this strategy

2026, the year vegan baking was solved!

On a more serious note:

1. "At $24 for the equivalent of 45 egg whites ($0.53 each) it's more expensive than buying conventional ($0.21 each) or organic ($0.33) egg whites, but not massively so." 
   
   I would be interested in an econ person's take on how they predict the price to change over time. Intuitively, I feel that $0.53 is a promising number for a newly launched product, and if demand increases, the price would plummet and make it the de-facto choice for many products that contain egg whites?
    
2. I hope they do a good job of marketing it, an increasing number of people are negatively primed towards cultivated products.

Ok but I unironically think that a 2D debate slider could be useful! 

So, who is this?

(Not a solution, but a general observation about people who engage in bashing EA.)

The "dot connectors" will always connect the dots, infer or invent nefarious motivations, and try to bucket you as they like. The problem is that you can't neatly map EAs onto the political spectrum -- yes, there are dominant trends, but the variance in views is sufficiently high that commentators have genuinely no clue where EAs belong. This makes sense because most major movements in history have been political ones, so when assessing EA, most people pull out their internal political philosophy detector and you end up with a mess like the chart below! 

But EA is a moral philosophy movement, and the chain of thinking is genuinely different. Instead of thinking how to organize society and labor, EAs unanimously agree on beneficentrism and deal with questions like, "What morally matters? To what degree? Which interventions are most effective? How do you even assess what is most effective?" When you organize a movement around these set of questions, you end up with:

• Some people who want to automate software engineering, some who want to pause it entirely, and others who think we should defensively accelerate progress
• At least two frontier AI labs: let's not forget OpenAI received $30 million in philanthropic money during its inception!
• Some EAs who think that AI will be a big deal for {their cause area}, others who are skeptical of the whole AI bundle
• Some EAs passionately dislike AI writing, some are fine with methodical use of AI in writing, and some are even more liberal about it
• One particular EA who is the loudest voice combatting the data center water usage myth
• (At least) one person from the EA-sphere who has large holdings in AI infrastructure
• And conservative AI Safetyists like you and liberal long timeline accelerationists like me

I don't know what the best solution for combatting EA bashing is, but spreading the idea that EA is more politically and intellectually diverse than people think should help.