The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the nonprofit I work at, is currently running a Summer Challenge to tide us over until the Singularity Summit in October (Oct 15-16 in New York, ticket prices go up by $100 after September starts). The Summer Challenge grant will double up to $125,000 in donations, ends at the end of August, and is currently up to only $39,000 which is somewhat worrying. I hadn’t meant to do anything like this, but:
I will release completed chapters at a pace of one every 6 days, or one every 5 days after the SIAI’s Summer Challenge reaches $50,000, or one every 4 days after the Summer Challenge reaches $75,000, or one every 3 days if the Summer Challenge is completed. Remember, the Summer Challenge has until the end of August, after that the pace will be set. (Just some slight encouragement for donors reading this fic to get around to donating sooner rather than later.) A link to the Challenge and the Summit can be found in the profile page, or Google “summer singularity challenge” and “Singularity Summit” respectively.
No one person donated $10,000. One person did create a $1,000/mo. subscription which counts as a $12,000 pledge. Only one person so far has contributed more than $5,000.
Yep, I meant that the current record of online donations shows that. Should I add the check to the total even if we haven’t received it yet, being confident that we will?
May I suggest that with regard to Eliezers HP/MOR-Challenge the page gets updated at least once every 24 hours, possible even more often?
What does this refer to?
The original description is here.
I am updating it every 24 hours. I usually update it at around 7-8PM PST.
Does the current page take into account http://lesswrong.com/lw/78s/help_fund_lukeprog_at_siai/4p9a and http://lesswrong.com/lw/78s/help_fund_lukeprog_at_siai/4p1x in the total?
No it doesn’t. I’ll update it now. Give me an hour or two, there are a lot of entries.
No one person donated $10,000. One person did create a $1,000/mo. subscription which counts as a $12,000 pledge. Only one person so far has contributed more than $5,000.
By which you mean, we haven’t gotten the check yet, and the current total doesn’t take into account pengvado’s donation?
Yep, I meant that the current record of online donations shows that. Should I add the check to the total even if we haven’t received it yet, being confident that we will?