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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Facebook page | lesswrong2 |
| Website | https://www.lesswrong.com/ |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=Lightcone+Infrastructure |
| Key people | Oliver Habryka|Ben Pace|Raymond Arnold |
| Launch date | 2017-06-18 |
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 16 | 260,000 | 481,482 | 6,900 | 10,000 | 78,814 | 100,000 | 150,000 | 260,000 | 380,000 | 500,000 | 600,000 | 1,733,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Epistemic institutions | 14 | 260,000 | 396,694 | 6,900 | 10,000 | 30,000 | 100,000 | 110,000 | 260,000 | 380,000 | 400,000 | 600,000 | 1,055,000 | 1,733,000 |
| AI safety | 1 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 |
| Effective altruism|AI safety | 1 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Donor | Total | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaan Tallinn (filter this donee) | 4,278,000.00 | 1,733,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 1,435,000.00 | 110,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| FTX Future Fund (filter this donee) | 2,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund (filter this donee) | 550,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 290,000.00 | 260,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Casey and Family Foundation (filter this donee) | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (filter this donee) | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective Altruism Grants (filter this donee) | 85,713.71 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 85,713.71 |
| Jed McCaleb (filter this donee) | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Eric Rogstad (filter this donee) | 10,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10,000.00 |
| Total | 7,703,713.71 | 1,733,000.00 | 3,000,000.00 | 1,935,000.00 | 430,000.00 | 260,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 95,713.71 |
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zvi’s Thoughts on the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) (GW, IR) | 2021-12-14 | Zvi Mowshowitz | LessWrong | Survival and Flourishing Fund Jaan Tallinn Jed McCaleb The Casey and Family Foundation | Effective Altruism Funds:Long-Term Future Fund Center on Long-Term Risk Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters The Centre for Long-Term Resilience Lightcone Infrastructure Effective Altruism Funds: Infrastructure Fund Centre for the Governance of AI Ought New Science Research Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative AI Objectives Institute Topos Institute Emergent Ventures India European Biostasis Foundation Laboratory for Social Minds PrivateARPA Charter Cities Institute | Survival and Flourishing Fund Beth Barnes Oliver Habryka Zvi Mowshowitz | Miscellaneous commentary | Longtermism|AI safety|Global catastrophic risks | In this lengthy post, Zvi Mowshowitz, who was one of the recommenders for the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H2 grant round based on the S-process, describes his experience with the process, his impressions of several of the grantees, and implications for what kinds of grant applications are most likely to succeed. Zvi says that the grant round suffered from the problem of Too Much Money (TMM); there was way more money than any individual recommender felt comfortable granting, and just about enough money for the combined preferences of all recommenders, which meant that any recommender could unilaterally push a particular grantee through. The post has several other observations and attracts several comments. |
| The LessWrong Team is now Lightcone Infrastructure, come work with us! (GW, IR) | 2021-09-30 | Oliver Habryka | LessWrong | Lightcone Infrastructure | Status change | Epistemic institutions | The LessWrong team announces a name change to Lightcone Infrastructure; the LessWrong website will continue to be called LessWrong. The renaming of the team reflects a wider scope than just work related to the LessWrong website, "Lightcone" refers to the light cone of humanity which essentially reflects the portion of spacetime that we can influence. | ||
| EA Forum 2.0 Initial Announcement (GW, IR) | 2018-07-19 | Marek Duda | Effective Altruism Forum | Lightcone Infrastructure | Launch | Effective altruism/movement growth | Post describes plans to move the Effective Altruism Forum to the same codebase and infrastructure as the new LessWrong (LessWrong 2.0, lesswrong.com). It describes the alternatives considered and the reasons for the decision | ||
| Announcing AlignmentForum.org Beta (GW, IR) | 2018-07-10 | Raymond Arnold | LessWrong | Lightcone Infrastructure | Launch | AI safety | Post describes the beta launch of alignmentforum.org, a forum devoted to questions of AI alignment, built on top of the same codebase and infrastructure as the new LessWrong. It is a natural successor to agentfoundations.org | ||
| LessWrong is hiring (GW, IR) | 2018-06-18 | Raymond Arnold | LessWrong | Lightcone Infrastructure | Job advertisement | Epistemic institutions | Announcement that LessWrong 2.0 is looking for somebody to fill a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) role. Criteria are experience as a programmer and excitement about the long-term vision. The salary range is $70,000 to $120,000, though higher salaries are possible. The post and comments also reveal that the current employees are Oliver Habryka, Raymond Arnold, and Ben Pace, and they all make $60,000 a year. Comments also reiterate previously documented funding sources: Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, EA Grants, and individual donors such as Eric Rogstad | ||
| LW Migration Announcement (GW, IR) | 2018-03-21 | Matthew Graves | LessWrong | Lightcone Infrastructure | Donee periodic update | Epistemic institutions | Announcement that LessWrong 2.0 is coming out of beta and transitioning from lesserwrong.com to lesswrong.com, becoming the official LessWrong. | ||
| LW 2.0 Strategic Overview (GW, IR) | 2017-09-14 | Oliver Habryka | LessWrong | Centre for Effective Altruism Effective Altruism Grants Eric Rogstad | Lightcone Infrastructure | Miscellaneous commentary | Epistemic institutions | Habryka describes his plans for LessWrong 2.0 as its primary developer. | |
| Welcome to Lesswrong 2.0 (GW, IR) | 2017-06-18 | Oliver Habryka | LessWrong | Lightcone Infrastructure | Launch | Epistemic institutions | Post outlines thinking for LessWrong 2.0, covering in part changes to the codebase, moderation, discourse norms. |
Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donor | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 16) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| Jaan Tallinn | 1,733,000.00 | 2 | Epistemic institutions | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2023-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Olle Häggström Steve Omohundro Daniel Kokotajlo | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2023 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios. In each simulation, Recommenders specify a marginal value function for funding each application, and an algorithm calculates a table of grant recommendations by taking turns distributing funding recommendations from each Recommender in succession, using their marginal value functions to prioritize. The Recommenders then discuss their evaluations and update the simulation with their new opinions, using approval voting to prioritize discussion topics, until the end of the last meeting when their inputs are finalized. Similarly, funders specify and adjust different value functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's ninth grant round. |
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| Jaan Tallinn | 600,000.00 | 4 | Epistemic institutions | https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html | Survival and Flourishing Fund Nick Hay Alyssa Vance Scott Garrabrant | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2022 H2 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h2-recommendations based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a table of marginal value functions. Recommenders specified a marginal value function for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different value functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): A total amount of $1,000,000 is allocated by the SFF process; of this amount, $400,000 was already granted via a speculation grant on 2022-08-18. This leaves a remainder of $600,000 to grant. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's eighth grant round. Donor retrospective of the donation: The grant recommendation in the future grant round https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2023-h1-recommendations suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee. |
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| Jaan Tallinn | 400,000.00 | 6 | Epistemic institutions | https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html | -- | Donation process: This is a speculation grant ahead of the 2022 H2 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h2-recommendations where a total of $1,000,000 would be allocated; the residual amountof $600,000 would be granted on 2022-12-08. Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor retrospective of the donation: This speculation grant is validated by the subsequent 2022 H2 grant round https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2022-h2-recommendations where the total amount allocated to the grantee ($1,000,000) exceeds the speculation grant amount ($400,000). |
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| FTX Future Fund | 2,000,000.00 | 1 | Effective altruism|AI safety | https://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=ad-hoc | -- | Donation process: This grant is part of staff-led grantmaking by FTX Future Fund. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Staff_led_grantmaking_in_more_detail (GW, IR) says: "Unlike the open call and regranting, these grants and investments are not a test of a particular potentially highly scalable funding model. These are projects we funded because we became aware of them and thought they were good ideas." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Intended use of funds: Grant to "support Lightcone’s ongoing projects including running the LessWrong forum, hosting conferences and events, and maintaining an office space for Effective Altruist organizations." |
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| Jaan Tallinn | 380,000.00 | 7 | Epistemic institutions | https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html | Survival and Flourishing Fund Beth Barnes Oliver Habryka Zvi Mowshowitz | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H2 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h2-recommendations based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a table of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts. [...] [The] system is designed to generally favor funding things that at least one recommender is excited to fund, rather than things that every recommender is excited to fund." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kuDKtwwbsksAW4BG2/zvi-s-thoughts-on-the-survival-and-flourishing-fund-sff (GW, IR) explains the process from a recommender's perspective. Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for selecting the donee: Zvi Mowshowitz, one of the recommenders in the grant round, writes in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kuDKtwwbsksAW4BG2/zvi-s-thoughts-on-the-survival-and-flourishing-fund-sff#Lightcone_Infrastructure (GW, IR) "We decided I had a conflict of interest here, so I didn’t have the option to fund them, but if I’d had that option I would have happily done that." He then describes more of this thinking around how Lightcone Infrastructure, through its work on LessWrong and other projects, helps remove trivial inconveniences to people doing the right thing. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's sixth grant round and the fourth one with a grant to this grantee. Other notes: The grant round also includes a $500,000 grant to the grantee from the Casey and Family Foundation, that is participating as a funder in the SFF process for the first time. Although Jed McCaleb also participates as a funder in this round, and has previously granted money to Lightcone Infrastructure, he does not make any grants to Lightcone Infrastructure in this round. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 4.29%; announced: 2021-11-20. |
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| The Casey and Family Foundation | 500,000.00 | 5 | Epistemic institutions | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h2-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Beth Barnes Oliver Habryka Zvi Mowshowitz | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H2 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a table of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts. [...] [The] system is designed to generally favor funding things that at least one recommender is excited to fund, rather than things that every recommender is excited to fund." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kuDKtwwbsksAW4BG2/zvi-s-thoughts-on-the-survival-and-flourishing-fund-sff (GW, IR) explains the process from a recommender's perspective. Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for selecting the donee: Zvi Mowshowitz, one of the recommenders in the grant round, writes in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kuDKtwwbsksAW4BG2/zvi-s-thoughts-on-the-survival-and-flourishing-fund-sff#Lightcone_Infrastructure (GW, IR) "We decided I had a conflict of interest here, so I didn’t have the option to fund them, but if I’d had that option I would have happily done that." He then describes more of this thinking around how Lightcone Infrastructure, through its work on LessWrong and other projects, helps remove trivial inconveniences to people doing the right thing. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's sixth grant round and the fourth one with a grant to this grantee. The Casey and Family Foundation is participating in SFF's process for the first time, and this is its only grant in this round. Other notes: The grant round also includes a $380,000 grant to the grantee from Jaan Tallinn, who has participated in earlier grant rounds and funded Lightcone Infrastructure in several of them. Although Jed McCaleb also participates as a funder in this round, and has previously granted money to Lightcone Infrastructure, he does not make any grants to Lightcone Infrastructure in this round. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 100.00%; announced: 2021-11-20. |
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| Jaan Tallinn | 1,055,000.00 | 3 | Epistemic institutions | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Ben Hoskin Katja Grace Oliver Habryka Adam Marblestone | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fifth grant round and the third one with a grant to this grantee. Donor retrospective of the donation: Followup grants in the next grant round https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h2-recommendations from both Jaan Tallinn and the Casey and Family Foundation, suggest continued satisfaction with the grantee, though the grant amounts ($380,000 and $500,000 respectively) total to less than this grant. Other notes: At the time, the grantee is known as LessWrong, and listed as such in the grants database. Although Jed McCaleb also participates in this grant round as a funder, he does not make any grants to this grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 11.09%. |
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| Jaan Tallinn | 110,000.00 | 11 | Epistemic institutions | https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round; the grantee had also received a grant in the first round. Donor retrospective of the donation: A further grant of a much larger amount ($1,055,000) as part of a later grant round https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations (2021 H1) suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee. Other notes: At the time, the grantee is known as LessWrong, and listed as such in the grants database. The grant round also includes grants from the Survival and Flourishing Fund ($290,000) and Jed McCaleb ($30,000) to the grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 11.96%. |
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| Survival and Flourishing Fund | 290,000.00 | 8 | Epistemic institutions | https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a table of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round; the grantee had also received a grant in the first round. Other notes: At the time, the grantee is known as LessWrong, and listed as such in the grants database. The grant round also includes grants from Jaan Tallinn ($110,000) and Jed McCaleb ($30,000) to the grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 44.61%. |
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| Jed McCaleb | 30,000.00 | 14 | Epistemic institutions | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round; the grantee had also received a grant in the first round. Other notes: At the time, the grantee is known as LessWrong, and listed as such in the grants database. The grant round also includes grants from the Survival and Flourishing Fund ($290,000) and Jaan Tallinn ($110,000) to the grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 12.00%. |
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| Survival and Flourishing Fund | 260,000.00 | 9 | Epistemic institutions | https://jaan.online/philanthropy/donations.html | Alex Flint Andrew Critch Eric Rogstad | Donation process: Part of the founding batch of grants for the Survival and Flourishing Fund made in August 2019. The fund is partly a successor to part of the grants program of the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) that handled grantmaking by Jaan Tallinn; see http://existence.org/tallinn-grants-future/ As such, this grant to LessWrong 2.0 may represent a renewal of grants totaling $250,000 made by BERI to LessWrong 2.0 in 2018 Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for selecting the donee: This grant to LessWrong 2.0 may represent a renewal of grants totaling $250,000 made by BERI to LessWrong 2.0 in 2018. Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): This grant to LessWrong 2.0 may represent a renewal of grants totaling $250,000 made by BERI to LessWrong 2.0 in 2018. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 29.55% Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; the Survival and Flourishing Fund is making its first round of grants in August 2019. Also, it is likely that the timeframe previous BERI grant to LessWrong 2.0 (made September 2018) has ended. Donor retrospective of the donation: Continued grants in future grant rounds as a result of the S-process, including https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations (2020 H1) suggest continued satisfaction with the grantee. Other notes: Announced: 2019-08-29. |
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| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | 150,000.00 | 10 | AI safety | https://web.archive.org/web/20180921215949/http://existence.org/organization-grants/ | -- | Given via the Center for Applied Rationality. To support the development of LessWrong 2.0. Announced at http://existence.org/2018/09/18/activity-update-july-and-august-2018.html. | |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | 100,000.00 | 12 | Epistemic institutions | https://web.archive.org/web/20180731180958/http://existence.org:80/grants | -- | Grant via the Center for Applied Rationality for the support of activities to develop and improve the website LessWrong 2.0. See announcement at http://existence.org/2018/04/07/activity-update-february-and-march-2018.html. | |
| Effective Altruism Grants | 6,899.97 | 16 | Epistemic institutions | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iBy--zMyIiTgybYRUQZIm11WKGQZcixaCmIaysRmGvk | -- | Work on in-person and/or online community infrastructure for the rationality and EA communities. This will primarily take the form of helping to develop the new version of the rationality forum LessWrong, with others projects, like Europeans workshops encouraging long-term collaboration between EAs, under consideration. See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1fc/effective_altruism_grants_project_update/ for more context about the grant program. Currency info: donation given as 5,150.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-09-29 via Bloomberg). | |
| Effective Altruism Grants | 78,813.74 | 13 | Epistemic institutions | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iBy--zMyIiTgybYRUQZIm11WKGQZcixaCmIaysRmGvk | -- | Development of the new version of the rationality forum LessWrong. He and a partner will improve its moderation system, codebase and design, as well as incentivize top contributors to post on the new platform. See http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1fc/effective_altruism_grants_project_update/ for more context about the grant program. Currency info: donation given as 58,825.00 GBP (conversion done on 2017-09-29 via Bloomberg). | |
| Eric Rogstad | 10,000.00 | 15 | Epistemic institutions | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rEHLk9nC5TtrNoAKT/lw-2-0-strategic-overview (GW, IR) | -- |