@gpcureton @samir But wait, it gets better (or worse?).

I checked IFP on ProPublica, in the 2022 and 2021 Form 990 filings (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/872449729/202300699349300540/full), the org name is "INSTITUTE FOR PROGRESS AND ALTRUISM".

Part III 4a mentions "[...]. As a non-profit research and advocacy organization, IFP brings the best ideas from the progress studies and effective altruism communities to policymakers in Washington, DC."

In their 'preparing for launch' page they mention they borrow ideas from defensive accelerationism (https://ifp.org/preparing-for-launch/).

So yeah, IFP is that type of woo-woo techbro policy-wonk.

@gpcureton @samir Right on the money.

Their website uses AI-generated images for post thumbnails and promotes AI, their open position for an Editor explicitly says that you should be comfortable working with LLMs, it reminded me of the accelerationist movement, but since you've also mentioned effective altruism, it turns out there's a subset named "effective accelerationism" which is used in the corporate world.

IFP partially matches e/acc, they push for accelerated technological progress through US-centric reforms, they're also pro-AI and pro-innovation but they're not (or haven't revealed to be AI maximalists), so it's not explicitly e/acc, just smells a bit like it.

To further that, three of the foundations funding IFP - Astera Foundation, Coefficient Giving and Heising-Simmons Foundation are EA donors or EA-aligned, and IFP may have received funding in the past from none other than one of the poster boys of EA, Sam Bankman-Fried, at least according to an EA forum page on IFP.