gwern comments on SIAI Fundraising - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 20 February 2012 11:37:02PM 1 point [-]

Looking in the Internet Archive, their staff page never lists anything with the keyword 'finance' (for the past 2-3 years), so I'm not sure that's a strong argument from silence.

Comment author: steven0461 21 February 2012 12:30:23AM *  4 points [-]

The "finance board" that she's a part of is one of LF's "advisory boards", which look like they total 1000+ people; see the first link in the grandparent. These people aren't employees even though they have bios on the site. My impression is they just get listed on the site and added to a mailing list.

Comment author: Alicorn 21 February 2012 12:36:46AM 3 points [-]

Yep. They seem to just look for people who have some connection, however tenuous, to what they do, and then ask nicely if you'd like to be on the board. Then they email you occasionally and maintain a wee profile with links to your stuff. It's pretty okay.

Comment author: gwern 24 June 2013 01:35:10AM *  1 point [-]

I think you may be right. I just took a look at the 2011 form 990 (2012 is not out), which is where I'd expect to first see her mentioned if she was handling books for them, but the form is listed as being prepared by the president Eric Klien and Isaac is not mentioned anywhere in it I can see.