One-year updates on the ~40 ACX Grants projects, each with a grantee self-rating (average 6.5/10, where 5 = 'as expected'). Real accountability content — genuine progress on many (Legal Impact for Chickens raised $800K and filed its first lawsuit; Manifold raised $2.4M; the oxfendazole group got $1.6M from OpenPhil; an IVG startup; a Georgist mass-appraisal model; a Stanford biosecurity center) alongside the slow academic/political ones. Plus Scott's honest 'Lessons Learned' meta-reflection: he's unsure what he learned; the FTX Future Fund follow-on funding of several grantees may have been the program's most important effect (it moved more money than he did); and the surprise that blog exposure mattered as much as cash. More than a bare announcement — a substantive impact/accountability writeup.

Quality 62 · Strong. Solid-strong edge: above the pure-announcement floor for the genuine 40-project accountability report and the candid lessons-learned reflection; fundamentally a status/updates post.

Claude’s paradigm shift 28 · Slight. Slight: administrative/reporting content; low novelty of ideas.

Real-world impact 3 · Moderate. Moderate (3): documents real disbursement and durable outcomes across many funded projects (lawsuits filed, orgs scaled, follow-on grants seeded); a status report on already-real impact.

ACX Grants: Project Updates