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Lightcone Commons' funders (and SFF and CG) are mostly NOT funding things that will prevent our extinction

Lightcone Commons have completed their first granting round . And the things their granters and recommenders have funded mostly do not meet the current moment (the same is true for SFF’s most recent round , and Coefficient Giving ). Let’s hope that their upcoming future rounds do better, or other funders step in. All of our lives are on the line. (Apologies if this is blunt, but this is important..) I get that money allocators (grantmakers and VCs alike) typically invest in people over ideas. But this is taking that to the extreme. Yudkowsky and Soares’ funding recommendations don’t fit with t

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Lightcone Commons: what I funded and why

I am an evaluator for Lightcone Commons (LC). LC is a platform for applicants to submit projects, for evaluators to rank them and for funders to choose the funding orders of several evaluators. It is not a foundation, in that it doesn’t have money that it spends how it chooses. And I do not have a permanent position working for Lightcone Commons. I get paid 2% of any money that a funder chooses to direct via my funding order. This pays for my time and also for any research that I pay others to do. That said, what were my general and specific funding preferences? This is a version of what Light

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Lightcone Commons: Round 1 complete, Round 2 underway

Tl;dr: Lightcone Commons’ first funding round is complete! 17 evaluators made funding recommendations, including Zvi Mowshowitz, Scott Siskind and Eliezer Yudkowsky. 23 funders coordinated to grant $45.1M, and 147 projects received funding. Round two is open. Applications for round two close on November 15th and funders confirm their grants by December 14th. Funders can join anytime before December 7th. In 2027, we will be hosting funding rounds monthly. Yes. Every month. You can join as a funder, express interest in joining as an evaluator, and apply for funding at lightconecommons.com . Ligh

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Show HN: Trail Commons – A new open map of mountain bike trails

Trail Commons is a project focused on giving the public ownership of the data we use to discover and navigate trails on public lands. The first step toward t...

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