CFAR could make very good use of a lot more money than this while starting up. I don’t work for the Center for Applied Rationality and they don’t pay me, but their work is sufficiently important that the Singularity Institute (which does pay me) has allowed me to offer to work on Methods full-time until the story is finished if HPMOR readers donate a total of $1M to CFAR.
I was curious about that as well. I suspect they have decided to wait until SI’s fundraising drive is finished, for behavioral economic reasons as well as their prioritization, but it passes up the option to determine LWers’ relative preferences for SI and CFAR.
That’s quite the author’s advance!
Speaking of which, isn’t there anyone with CFAR-authority that wants to make a fundraising announcement post, as Luke did for SI?
I was curious about that as well. I suspect they have decided to wait until SI’s fundraising drive is finished, for behavioral economic reasons as well as their prioritization, but it passes up the option to determine LWers’ relative preferences for SI and CFAR.
Well, they mentioned in the SI fundraising post that there would be a CFAR fundraiser, and that’s why I didn’t donate to SI.