I've been avoiding helping SingInst and feel guilty when I do help them because of a form of this argument. The apparent premature emphasis on CEV, Eliezer's spotty epistemology and ideology (or incredibly deep ploys to make people think he has spotty epistemology and ideology), their firing Steve Rayhawk (who had an extremely low salary) while paying Eliezer about a hundred grand a year, &c., are disturbing enough that I fear that supporting them might be the sort of thing that is obviously stupid in retrospect. They have good intentions, but sometimes good intentions aren't enough, sometimes you have to be sane. Thus I'm refraining from supporting or condemning them until I have a much better assessment of the situation. I have a similarly tentative attitude toward Leverage Research.