Meme Coin Millions Funded AI Doomsday. Who Audits It?

A meme-coin donation to the Future of Life Institute ballooned into hundreds of millions of dollars and turned a niche think tank into a force in AI policy. We audit Effective Altruism, P(doom) and Vitalik Buterin's d/acc as capital allocation decisions and look at what this ideological moat means for frontier AI capex.

Chapters

(0:00) The Ideological Ledger of AI

(2:52) Effective Altruism and Earning to Give

(3:35) Four Phases of EA Allocation

(4:41) Effective Altruism and Earning to Give

(5:21) Four Phases of EA Allocation

(7:13) Case Study: Vitalik's Dogecoin Windfall

(8:53) The Institutional Moat

(10:09) Four Phases of EA Allocation

(10:30) Effective Altruism and Earning to Give

(11:10) Macro Risks and the Bear Case

(12:55) The Institutional Moat

(13:32) Verdict: Ideology as a Risk Factor

(14:55) The Ideological Matrix: EA, e/acc, d/acc

(18:19) Verdict: Ideology as a Risk Factor

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