It would help to be more specific about what you mean. There are many different kinds of financial support and there are different things you could mean with “should”.
Both CFAR and MIRI get supported by donations that partly come from LW members.
My question was really stupid, actually I was thinking “I would like to spend at least 200 hours on this project, but it seems I won’t get any money from it, maybe I could ask LW members if they want to support it financially”. A better question is “Can I ask you money to help me to build a software that may help you?”, or “it is inappropriate to ask for money on LW, the platform discourages this”.
Disclaimer: I am still not sure if this is the correct question. Anyway, I am developing some helper tools, and although I won’t monetize them directly, it would be good to get some money from it, because I am not the guy who has enough money to not need any money from the community anymore.
Fundraising requests have been in the past posted on LessWrong: Berkeley REACH would be one example, the Grants & Fundraising Opportunities tag has plenty of other examples. If you want to ask for money I would recommend that you read through a bunch of the existing fundraising posts. They will likely both show you how to format a request and what kind of projects this community values.
In general you will likely come to the conclusion that while people are willing to fund promising projects, it needs more then just “helping a fellow community member” but a belief that the project is good value for money compared to other donation targets. And most people who donate significant amounts of money do it through an EA lense.
It would help to be more specific about what you mean. There are many different kinds of financial support and there are different things you could mean with “should”.
Both CFAR and MIRI get supported by donations that partly come from LW members.
My question was really stupid, actually I was thinking “I would like to spend at least 200 hours on this project, but it seems I won’t get any money from it, maybe I could ask LW members if they want to support it financially”.
A better question is “Can I ask you money to help me to build a software that may help you?”, or “it is inappropriate to ask for money on LW, the platform discourages this”.
Disclaimer: I am still not sure if this is the correct question. Anyway, I am developing some helper tools, and although I won’t monetize them directly, it would be good to get some money from it, because I am not the guy who has enough money to not need any money from the community anymore.
Fundraising requests have been in the past posted on LessWrong: Berkeley REACH would be one example, the Grants & Fundraising Opportunities tag has plenty of other examples. If you want to ask for money I would recommend that you read through a bunch of the existing fundraising posts. They will likely both show you how to format a request and what kind of projects this community values.
In general you will likely come to the conclusion that while people are willing to fund promising projects, it needs more then just “helping a fellow community member” but a belief that the project is good value for money compared to other donation targets. And most people who donate significant amounts of money do it through an EA lense.