Sam Harris

Well, I know we all await the wisdom of governments in figuring out how to mitigate this threat, but what is the role or opportunities for philanthropy here?

Because I know you're currently at Longview Philanthropy and leading their program on nuclear weapons and existential risk.

And Longview has been advising me and the Waking Up Foundation in how we give out money each year.

Philanthropically, what can private citizens do to help?

What happened there?

Why did MacArthur get out of the saving the future game?

What is it?

Can you estimate what the funding is?

Oh, my God.

That really is paltry, given what we're talking about.

Yeah.

Wow.

Is that all the organizations that are in the space?

I mean, something like the Plowshares Fund?

Are you including all of those?

Man, okay, well, this is an appeal to audience members.

This is a game that we obviously need to win, and it's astonishing to me that we're talking about this level of funding for a problem.

of this sort.

It's, when you look at what gets funded and at what scale, you know, there are startups that no one's ever heard of and will never hear of that have, you know, raised, you know, 10 times that amount of money and, and they evaporate.

It's just,