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Is Lightcone Infrastructure still part of CFAR, or is it now an independent legal entity?
If the latter, is it a for-profit or a nonprofit? If nonprofit, is there a way to donate to it?
If it’s still part of CFAR: if I donate to CFAR, how are donations allocated between CFAR-itself and Less Wrong / Lightcone?
We’re still the same legal entity (and still essentially different orgs with no overlap in management / leadership except that the same person files taxes / expenses for both orgs).
It’s a non-profit, and the easiest way to donate is using the paypal link in the donate page on the left sidebar :)
There’s currently a donation matching drive via the EA forums, which prompted some questions I didn’t see answered in this announcement.
According to this post from 2019:
Is Lightcone Infrastructure still part of CFAR, or is it now an independent legal entity?
If the latter, is it a for-profit or a nonprofit? If nonprofit, is there a way to donate to it?
If it’s still part of CFAR: if I donate to CFAR, how are donations allocated between CFAR-itself and Less Wrong / Lightcone?
We’re still the same legal entity (and still essentially different orgs with no overlap in management / leadership except that the same person files taxes / expenses for both orgs).
It’s a non-profit, and the easiest way to donate is using the paypal link in the donate page on the left sidebar :)