steven0461 comments on Calling all MIRI supporters for unique May 6 giving opportunity! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 06 May 2014 08:37:01AM *  3 points [-]

The leaderboards for most unique donors seem pretty close between MIRI and the next contender, so additional $10 donations may be getting unusual value per dollar right now. (The first hour was close between MIRI and a different organization with both having something like 34 unique donors, so in that sort of situation, if the highest number wins, the expected value to MIRI of a donation might be on the rough order of $100.)

Comment author: malo 06 May 2014 10:08:26AM 2 points [-]

We didn't win the 12 pm hour, but we won the 1 am hour! We also won the 408 prize of $2,500!

We have a live blog setup here, and a live feed of “the war room” at MIRI.

Comment author: steven0461 06 May 2014 10:27:22AM *  1 point [-]

(MIRI lost the third hour despite being comfortably on top of the leaderboard: what matters is the increase over the last hour, so at this point the leaderboard is probably misleading as an indicator of how close things are.)

Comment author: malo 06 May 2014 10:40:49AM 2 points [-]

The leaderboard is unique donors for the whole 24 hour period. But the prizes are for most unique donors in an hour, so the leaderboard won't tell us much.