Donated $300 now, intend to donate more (after more thinking).
My impression is that if you read LessWrong regularly, it could easily be worth $10-$30/month for you. If you’ve attended Lighthaven, there’s an extra benefit there, which could be much more. So I think it’s very reasonable for people in our community to donate $100 (a ~$10/month Substack subscription) to $10k (a fancy club membership) per person or so, depending on the person, just from the standpoint of thinking of it as communal/local infrastructure.
One potential point of contention is with the fact that I believe some of the team is working on future, more experimental projects, than just the LessWrong/Lighthaven basics. But I feel pretty good about this in-general, it’s just more high-risk and more difficult to recommend.
I also think it’s just good practice for community-focused projections to get donations from the community. This helps keep incentives more aligned. I think that the Lighthaven team is about as relevant as things get, on this topic, now.
Donated $300 now, intend to donate more (after more thinking).
My impression is that if you read LessWrong regularly, it could easily be worth $10-$30/month for you. If you’ve attended Lighthaven, there’s an extra benefit there, which could be much more. So I think it’s very reasonable for people in our community to donate $100 (a ~$10/month Substack subscription) to $10k (a fancy club membership) per person or so, depending on the person, just from the standpoint of thinking of it as communal/local infrastructure.
One potential point of contention is with the fact that I believe some of the team is working on future, more experimental projects, than just the LessWrong/Lighthaven basics. But I feel pretty good about this in-general, it’s just more high-risk and more difficult to recommend.
I also think it’s just good practice for community-focused projections to get donations from the community. This helps keep incentives more aligned. I think that the Lighthaven team is about as relevant as things get, on this topic, now.