Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI

Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by dang on Saturday April 01, 2017 @01:02PM (#14013017)

I scrolled to the end and can see why someone would question that. But framing it as a personal grant is misleading. If we're going to keep telling users that on HN we want them to make substantive points thoughtfully and apply the principle of charity, it's only fair to say so here as well. We like pith, but fairness more.

(In case anyone is curious, I don't know anything about the story; I just saw it on HN.)

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by idlewords on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:56PM (#14013543)

I don't think the principle of charity applies when someone is making foundation grants to benefit their close relatives and roommates. The principle of shenanigans kicks in.

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by dongslol on Saturday April 01, 2017 @11:34PM (#14015617)

The principle of charity would mean editing "to" to "which" in your sentence.

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by metricodus on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:04PM (#14013275)

Do you/YC have any personal or financial connection to the "Open Philanthropy Project"? Just curious.

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by dang on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:17PM (#14013333)

I don't, and only hear of these things when they show up on HN. No idea about YC but I doubt it.

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by schoen on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:24PM (#14013372)

On the other side, OpenAI was previously also funded by YC: http://blog.ycombinator.com/openai/

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by metricodus on Saturday April 01, 2017 @02:23PM (#14013367)

Thanks.

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Re:Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI by deontologizt on Saturday April 01, 2017 @04:37PM (#14014045)

I don't know if this counts, but YC funds the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours. CEA, 80k, and OPP are all part of the "effective altruism" ecosystem, and it is not hard to find personal connections between them. (For example, CEA recently launched "EA Funds", which are managed by employees of OPP.)

The connection is not direct. There may be more direct connections between YC and OPP, but I am not aware of any.

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