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Food $200 Healthcare $150 AI Alignment $150 AI Capabilities $3,600,000,000,000 Human Intelligence Enhancement $50 LessWrong + Lighthaven $20 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my lightcone is dying (LessWrong + Lighthaven are fundraising, a 🧵)

@Aella_Girl AS INCREDIBLY POWERFUL AUTISTS WE ARE OBLIGATED TO INFORM YOU THAT WE CANNOT BE BULLIED DUE TO HIGHLY ADVANCED "GAME THEORY"

the Lightcone team is the most powerfully autistic group I've ever met (laudatory). You should fund them continuing to run lesswrong. Also, if you mention that you funded them because I told you to, maybe I can finally bully them into letting me run an orgy at lighthaven (read more about them in the thread and their post) donation link next tweet

I'm not usually one to share my lurid music tastes, but the new LessWrong collab album slaps

A whole team effort, LW just launched a new page for viewing the winning posts of our community annual review process. Humorously titled "The LeastWrong", all the winning posts get some gorgeous art, and a cool interface for exploring them. lesswrong.com/leastwrong

Just dropped a new feature. "Debates" lesswrong.com/posts/kXiAGRWF…

@ReidGower Thanks! Some time this year, we should definitely do that... —Ben

@lesswrong Wanting to purchase A Map that Reflects the Territory series along with The Engines of Cognition... Will the prior be re-stocked? Thank you :)

@tacchinotacchi @ESYudkowsky The immigration problem does indeed suck. Note that I don't think it's entirely impossible to get around the problem of not having a technical visa (e.g. the O1 visa). We'd definitely be up for Trying Hard to solve this for someone we really wanted to work with. —Ben

LessWrong is hiring devs and generalists! $150-300k Apply: bit.ly/3DC3Cjj Why join? There’s a community of thinkers trying to save civilization. Think of it as a “distributed computation” trying to figure out what’s true. Our goal is to make the computation better 1/N

@henryaj And I also don't know how to build a strong and spontaneous creative relationship with someone primarily over Zoom. I could try but it doesn't seem worth the risk to me, as I expect it wouldn't work. —Ben

@henryaj I don't really know how to work with someone on building an in-person campus (with office rooms and housing and so on) with someone who isn't here. Interviewing our users here and solving problems for them requires being here. —Ben

Again, we’re hiring. Devs and world-class generalists, $150-300k/year, Berkeley. We're a 501c3. Apply: lightconeinfrastructure.com

Oh, we figured it was a bit confusing to lump all our activities under the "LessWrong" brand, so we've organized as "Lightcone Infrastructure". LessWrong continues as one (but only one) major project. 8/N

@EricHerboso @EAForumPosts It's true! This year for Petrov, LessWrong and the EA Forum have nukes pointed at each. Two forums, two buttons, and hopefully two sets of trustworthy users with launch codes.

38 years ago, Stanislav Petrov saved the world. This year, I was chosen by @EAForumPosts as steward of codes that can take down LessWrong.com for a day. Meanwhile LW holds codes for forum.effectivealtruism.org. I hope nothing happens this Petrov Day. ericherboso.org/2021/09/honori…

@Conaw @vgr Chapter 90, Roles, Pt 1. The Defense Professor speaks.

@vgr @lesswrong I remember there being a quote in HPMOR.org about courage/ambition being the bottleneck for breakthroughs -- something about great wizards coming Slytherin or Gryffindor but not ravenclaw -- any ideas?