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Loren Merritt

organization

Total granted
$525,000
Grants
6
Average size
$87,500
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2011–17

Grants over time

$0$100K$200K$300K2011201220132014201520162017

Biggest cause areas

Technical AI safety research$525,000100%6

Biggest recipients

Machine Intelligence Research Institute$525,000100%6

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Oct 2017Machine Intelligence Research Institute$25,000Foundationsvipul_donationsTotal amount donated by Loren Merritt to MIRI as of 2017-12-23 is $525,000. The amount listed as of October 2017 was http://web.archive.org/web/20171003083300/https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/ so the extra $25,000 was donated between those months
2016Machine Intelligence Research Institute$115,000Foundationsvipul_donationsTotal amount donated up to this point is listed as $500,000. The amount listed as of November 2016 at http://web.archive.org/web/20161118163935/https://intelligence.org/topdonors/ is 4385,000. The additional $115,000 was likely raised at the end of 2016
2013Machine Intelligence Research Institute$245,000Foundationsvipul_donationsTotal amount donated up to this point is listed as $385,000. Of this, $140,000 is accounted for by explicitly disclosed donations; the remainder is approximately attributed to 2013
Dec 7, 2012Machine Intelligence Research Institute$20,000Foundationsvipul_donationsDonation is announced in response to the post http://lesswrong.com/lw/ftg/2012_winter_fundraiser_for_the_singularity/ for the MIRI 2012 winter fundraiser
2012Machine Intelligence Research Institute$110,000Foundationsvipul_donationsDonation is announced in response to the post http://lesswrong.com/lw/ftg/2012_winter_fundraiser_for_the_singularity/ for the MIRI 2012 winter fundraiser
Aug 25, 2011Machine Intelligence Research Institute$10,000Foundationsvipul_donationsDonation is announced in response to the post http://lesswrong.com/lw/78s/help_fund_lukeprog_at_siai/ by Eliezer Yudkowsky asking for help to fund Luke Muehlhauser at MIRI (then called SIAI, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence