MichaelAnissimov comments on Help Fund Lukeprog at SIAI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 25 August 2011 01:10:20AM 9 points [-]

I just updated the Challenge Grant total to $39,695, or about 32% of our total. THANK YOU to everyone who donated in the last couple days, many of you did!

Comment author: Tripitaka 25 August 2011 04:08:04PM 5 points [-]

May I suggest that with regard to Eliezers HP/MOR-Challenge the page gets updated at least once every 24 hours, possible even more often?

Comment author: komponisto 27 August 2011 01:02:51AM 0 points [-]

Eliezers HP/MOR-Challenge

What does this refer to?

Comment author: MinibearRex 27 August 2011 01:07:56AM *  1 point [-]

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the nonprofit I work at, is currently running a Summer Challenge to tide us over until the Singularity Summit in October (Oct 15-16 in New York, ticket prices go up by $100 after September starts). The Summer Challenge grant will double up to $125,000 in donations, ends at the end of August, and is currently up to only $39,000 which is somewhat worrying. I hadn't meant to do anything like this, but:

I will release completed chapters at a pace of one every 6 days, or one every 5 days after the SIAI's Summer Challenge reaches $50,000, or one every 4 days after the Summer Challenge reaches $75,000, or one every 3 days if the Summer Challenge is completed. Remember, the Summer Challenge has until the end of August, after that the pace will be set. (Just some slight encouragement for donors reading this fic to get around to donating sooner rather than later.) A link to the Challenge and the Summit can be found in the profile page, or Google "summer singularity challenge" and "Singularity Summit" respectively.

The original description is here.

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 26 August 2011 11:09:07PM 0 points [-]

I am updating it every 24 hours. I usually update it at around 7-8PM PST.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 August 2011 12:06:34AM 0 points [-]

Does the current page take into account http://lesswrong.com/lw/78s/help_fund_lukeprog_at_siai/4p9a and http://lesswrong.com/lw/78s/help_fund_lukeprog_at_siai/4p1x in the total?

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 27 August 2011 12:07:42AM *  1 point [-]

No it doesn't. I'll update it now. Give me an hour or two, there are a lot of entries.

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 27 August 2011 02:14:04AM 1 point [-]

No one person donated $10,000. One person did create a $1,000/mo. subscription which counts as a $12,000 pledge. Only one person so far has contributed more than $5,000.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 August 2011 02:15:56AM 1 point [-]

By which you mean, we haven't gotten the check yet, and the current total doesn't take into account pengvado's donation?

Comment author: MichaelAnissimov 27 August 2011 02:22:59AM *  1 point [-]

Yep, I meant that the current record of online donations shows that. Should I add the check to the total even if we haven't received it yet, being confident that we will?

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