Anthropic founders charity pledge skepticism
Anthropic's seven founders have pledged 80% of their personal shares to charity. That sounds generous until you ask how much of the money at most charities actually reaches the cause, and how much goes to staff and admin. Anyone who's worked at a charity probably knows the
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The seven founders apparently have all pledged 80% of their personal equity to charitable causes, not 80% of anthropic, right? Just their personal equity and anthropic. But that's also, until I see what those charitable causes are and the structure of those charitable organizations, that doesn't mean anything to me. Totally. I worked at a charity. It's horseshit. A lot of them are horseshit. Obviously, there's some good ones, but almost so many of them have crazy distributions of that money to the cause versus the people there, administration, all that stuff. totally i feel like the larger they get the worse that gets yeah probably but uh mine was pretty small and it was yeah still pretty bad yeah which is because people it's it's not like it's usually that bad people spot those and go work there to take advantage do you know what i'm saying it's rarely like it's not the thing itself it's the person who spots that as something i can take advantage of or people like anything you know stocks rates the fed and where the money is going are things that we talk about all the time over here. So if you're into that, hit that follow button.
