I would like to announce that I have committed last night's Taco Bell to the septic system. Please clap
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2026
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The profits that come from the eventual fertilization of vegetal and fungal growth will help you consider donating a more meaningful amount to charities in the future!
Aka bribes to further the building of data centers.
Turns out that bribing politicians to ram data centers through is the best thing for the public, we've determined.
I expected the beneficiary would be some EA outfit, but it’s actually an entirely new company (and not any kind of charity or nonprofit) called the “Anthropic Public Benefit Fund”, which I’m sure will not at all be managed by EAs (and who would definitely not determine that the most effective altruism is sending money to Anthropic).
I like this:
Subject to stockholder approval, 5% of Anthropic’s shares will be committed today, with an additional 2% added at the board’s discretion for every 50% increase in the company’s value above a set baseline.
You like the public benefit, don’t you? Make sure you invest strongly in Anthropic and pump that valuation even higher, because there’s no other way we could choose to offer more support.
Anyway here’s their blog post on the matter, strangely not linked in the article as far as I can tell: https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund
The "totally not a scam company" creating the "absolutely not a scam corp", to definitely not scam people