Jamie Loftus

That's the best effective altruist thing that I can do to talk about how well that actually worked.

I want to quote from The Washington Post here.

FTX backed projects ranged from a twelve million dollars to champion a California ballot initiative to strengthen public health programs and detect emerging virus threats.

Amid lackluster support, the measure was punted to twenty twenty four.

to investing more than $11 million on the unsuccessful congressional primary campaign of an Oregon biosecurity expert, and even a $150,000 grant to help Monclef Slough, the scientific advisor to the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed vaccine accelerator, write his memoir.

So that sounds like a giant waste of money, right?

Yeah, that sounds like a lot of money set on fire.

Even if it was good, it sounds like it didn't account.

Even if the goals were good, well, the ballot measure failed, or it got punted, so it's not like it worked.

And it gets worse, because SBF's fund also put a lot of money, like $5 million, into ProPublica.

And ProPublica, they've done a lot of cool stuff.

They also recently published an extremely flawed investigation that backed the lab leak hypothesis.

I'm going to the L.A.

Times and their analysis of this deeply flawed piece of reporting.

Yes.

Nobody's perfect.

The L.A.

Times called it a train wreck, noting the article is based heavily on Chinese language documents that appear to have been mistranslated and misinterpreted, according to Chinese language experts who have piled on via social media since its publication.

It also takes as gospel a report by a rump group of Republican congressional staff members asserting that the pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.

And this has been the fact that ProPublica published this has, like, provided a shitload of fuel to the, it was all a fucking lab leak from China.