In something like 75% of possible futures, this will be the last essay that I publish on LessWrong. Future content will be available on my substack, where I’m hoping people will be willing to chip in a little commensurate with the value of the writing, and (after a delay) on my personal site (not yet live).
Are you willing to take commissions? If I was a software engineer instead of doing AI governance in DC, I would feel like paying you $5000 every now and then to write on a topic that we’re both interested in but I’m more interested in (like what would happen to the world if a critical mass of million people read WWOTF or HPMOR or dath ilan/duncanverse or signed up for cryopreservation) and post it on Lesswrong. I think that’s sufficiently weird enough to be one of the 25% possible futures where you sometimes post on LW again.
Maybe lightcone could set up some kind of regranting system where they get a 10% cut for matching wealthy earn-to-givers with less-wealthy brilliant writers (“This post was funded by Sam Samson”), seems like a potential way to get more Scott Alexanders and Zvis. I have no idea how that kind of thing works though.
Yes, I have taken commissions in the past (the CFAR handbook rewrite being one, paid for by Lightcone, and Staying Split being another, paid for by an individual).
Are you willing to take commissions? If I was a software engineer instead of doing AI governance in DC, I would feel like paying you $5000 every now and then to write on a topic that we’re both interested in but I’m more interested in (like what would happen to the world if a critical mass of million people read WWOTF or HPMOR or dath ilan/duncanverse or signed up for cryopreservation) and post it on Lesswrong. I think that’s sufficiently weird enough to be one of the 25% possible futures where you sometimes post on LW again.
Maybe lightcone could set up some kind of regranting system where they get a 10% cut for matching wealthy earn-to-givers with less-wealthy brilliant writers (“This post was funded by Sam Samson”), seems like a potential way to get more Scott Alexanders and Zvis. I have no idea how that kind of thing works though.
Yes, I have taken commissions in the past (the CFAR handbook rewrite being one, paid for by Lightcone, and Staying Split being another, paid for by an individual).