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Nathan @NathanpmYoung

— quoting @HenriThunberg — saved image

Nathan [magnifier icon] [verified] @NathanpmYoung · 1h

I wish we had better options for helping these people than curing diseases. I wish we could help create functional societies that could pay for these things on their own.

I am grateful to GiveWell and glad for the mothers whose children survive but I want better.

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Henri Thunberg [gold diamond badge] @HenriThunberg · 5h

we (givewell) are so back

[attached bar chart]
Funds Raised (in $millions) by metrics year
Legend: Coefficient Giving (millions) [grey]; Other Donors (millions) [blue]
Y axis: Funds Raised, $0 to $800
X axis: Metrics Year
Totals labelled above bars: 2012 $11; 2013 $20; 2014 $35; 2015 $120; 2016 $114; 2017 $144; 2018 $159; 2019 $171; 2020 $293; 2021 $595; 2022 $603; 2023 $355; 2024 $415; 2025 $616
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

X post by Nathan Young (@NathanpmYoung) lamenting that disease-curing is the available option for helping poor populations rather than building functional societies, quoting a Henri Thunberg post ('we (givewell) are so back') with a stacked bar chart of GiveWell funds raised 2012-2025, split between Coefficient Giving (grey) and other donors (blue). Chart totals transcribed from the visible labels; the per-segment split is not labelled.

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roon @tszzl

— reposted by Danielle Fong — saved image

Danielle Fong reposted
roon @tszzl · 2h
we live in actual cyberpunk now

private consortiums raise funds larger than federal discretionary spending of American government to build larger computers and computer precursors

warring corporations backed by competing homegrown somewhat aligned machine intelligence solve maths and sciences in server farms at least in part for marketing reasons

NSF slashed to bits. government institutions at all time lows in trustworthiness and competence. statements issued by the executive generally an anti signal for their truth value

mysterious organizations called Gates Foundation, "Coefficient Giving", and OpenAI Foundation now control a philanthropic capital base several times larger than America's annual foreign aid budget. all are trying to secure datacenters
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Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet from @tszzl (roon), reposted by Danielle Fong, describing present-day AI-industry dynamics (compute funding, corporate AI labs, government dysfunction, philanthropic foundations) as literal cyberpunk.

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