there's nothing that exists or has ever happened that doesn't make sense
if something confuses you, the problem is in your understanding, not the world
i have lots and lots of dreams where iโm like โoh yeah this is a dreamโ, and some where iโm like โomg this is totally a lucid dream letโs do lucid dream thingsโ but itโs just another genre of dream, as far as i can tell. no special relation to waking consciousness usually, for me
Note that this is stocks not flows; about 95% of the wealth that was probably legibly eventually going to be spent on EA as known in 2013 (โ ๏ธ disclaimer) was Moskovitz/Tuna's via Good Ventures, but like 50% or whatever of the spending that year was
(jul 2021 and jan 2023 are there because I pasted it into the same paint file as the other graph, but they're different shapes. let the sloppy formatting be an indicator of how seriously to take the numbers)
this is mostly likely โ ๏ธ extremely ahistorical โ ๏ธ but anyway here's what it looks like when you take those rows and project them back into the past
other donors are kept as a constant % of non-billionaires
on top of this crypto donors are รท10 before 2020 and รท100 before 2017
having a slow time reading this but if the arc is A and there's X ohms per radian, then the result:
foo(A*X, (2*pi-A)*X)
where foo(a,b) = 1/(1/a + 1/b)
I like foo.
transitive and commutative and generally nice.
cool function, one of my faves.