CFAR seems to have interests which are directly aligned with LW.
I'd much rather have a blanket ban on advertising than allow anyone to prosthelytize for their favorite charity.
Why? If people keep doing so and the better ones float to the top and the non-effective charities get downvoted or ignored, isn't that still a net-win?
CFAR seems to have interests which are directly aligned with LW.
It it the alignment of interests or is it overlapping management and control?
If I started my own rationality organization with basically the same stated goals as CFAR, would it get the same kind of billing? I pretty much doubt it. Actually, I think a lot of people would resent it as a competitor.
We're 4 days from the end of our matching fundraiser, and still only about 1/3rd of the way to our target (and to the point where pledged funds would cease being matched).
If you'd like to support the growth of rationality in the world, do please consider donating, or asking me about any questions/etc. you may have. I'd love to talk. I suspect funds donated to CFAR between now and Jan 31 are quite high-impact.
As a random bonus, I promise that if we meet the $120k matching challenge, I'll post at least two posts with some never-before-shared (on here) rationality techniques that we've been playing with around CFAR.