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Comment author: Bongo 26 April 2011 11:04:58AM *  2 points [-]

$83,934 was also paid in additional compensation to Eliezer for the completion of the Sequences. (It could also have been anadvance on the assembly of his book on rationality...the text is a tad vague.)

Eliezer's base compensation increased 20% in 2008 and then 7.8% in 2009.

Personally I think this is pretty shocking and the worst thing I've ever learned about SIAI.

(And since it's relevant when saying these kinds of things, I've donated to SIAI before.)

EDIT: False alarm, apparently there was no sequences bonus

Comment author: [deleted] 26 April 2011 11:32:00AM 0 points [-]

Where did you think the money was going?!

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 April 2011 12:04:08PM 20 points [-]

Where did you think the money was going?!

They thought it wasn't going to paying me $180K. Correctly. +1 epistemic point to everyone who expressed surprise at this nonfact, -1 point for hindsight bias to anyone who claimed not to be shocked by it.

Comment author: [deleted] 26 April 2011 12:37:23PM 10 points [-]

Fair enough. I assumed that most of the money would be going on salary, so if an organisation with a small staff had a large income, it'd be paying high salaries. It's one reason (of many) I've never donated. So I've just made a $10 donation, partly to punish myself for my own biases, and partly to make some restitution for acting on those biases in a way which might have seemed insulting.

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