People seem to be getting the impression that these minicamps may be primarily fundraising opportunities for the Singularity Institute. So, by way of explanation:

• At my request, our Board of Directors put Anna in charge of developing Rationality Group and gave her a separate budget for it.
• Rationality Group has been developing lessons, testing them, iterating the lessons in response to feedback, researching how to run a successful non-profit in this space, networking, and hiring founding members for a couple months now.
• Rationality Group hopes to learn how to run these kinds of camps without losing money. (Minicamp paid for itself as a result of future donations from minicamp participants who plausibly wouldn't have donated nearly as much had they not had this in-person encounter with us, but we'd like to learn how to run these kinds of minicamps without losing money while not counting future donations.)
• The lessons are now more tested and practiced than what we put together for minicamp, but we always appreciate opportunities to get feedback on them from additional participants.
• Who knows? Maybe we'll want to hire some of the participants to be part of our team.
• Above all, we want to start making a greater push to raise the sanity waterline, help aspiring rationalists along their journey, and help create more heroes who do cool things like ethical careers, efficient chairty, and x-risk reduction.