One point that hasn’t been discussed here is that in all communities there are a lot of people doing valuable work for it who aren’t being compensated. The higher the salaries are, the less people who can either be hired or offered incentives via programs such as this one.
I have no interest in moving to the Bay area to develop software but if I could get paid $500 per post for a publicly-accessible article I get my name on I’d write once per week for a year on whatever Lightcone wants me to.
While this is true in abstract, AI_WAIFU links to a post that describes a situation where they are struggling to find people to give all their money to. Specifically it describes
Having tens of millions of dollar per “core community member”
Having funding grow faster than “core community membership.”
If that’s an accurate description of EA as a whole and LW is finance-bound that indicates that LW needs to secure more funding. The funding is very clearly there.
One point that hasn’t been discussed here is that in all communities there are a lot of people doing valuable work for it who aren’t being compensated. The higher the salaries are, the less people who can either be hired or offered incentives via programs such as this one.
I have no interest in moving to the Bay area to develop software but if I could get paid $500 per post for a publicly-accessible article I get my name on I’d write once per week for a year on whatever Lightcone wants me to.
I think it’s possible we’ll have various programs where people are paid to write and research, though I’m not sure what they’d look like yet.
While this is true in abstract, AI_WAIFU links to a post that describes a situation where they are struggling to find people to give all their money to. Specifically it describes
Having tens of millions of dollar per “core community member”
Having funding grow faster than “core community membership.”
If that’s an accurate description of EA as a whole and LW is finance-bound that indicates that LW needs to secure more funding. The funding is very clearly there.