SFF is very suboptimal
I recently served as a recommender in SFF's annual funding round (grants will be decided and announced in September). I'm deeply grateful for SFF's funders, and I hope more AI safety donors appear in the future.Unfortunately, the SFF experience is bad for both applicants and recommenders, it's slow, and it lacks some other desiderata. (The actual funding decisions are moderately good by my lights — probably over half of the value of grants that a better system with the same budget would produce,
By Zach Stein-Perlman