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Comment author: JGWeissman 27 December 2013 01:42:13PM 20 points [-]

my feeling about CFAR is that they are providing a service to individuals for money and it's probably not a terrible idea to let the market determine if their services are worth the amount they charge.

I think that CFAR's workshops are self funding and contribute to paying for organizational overhead. Donated funds allow them to offer scholarships to their workshops to budding Effective Altruists (like college students) and run the SPARC program (targeting mathematically gifted children who may be future AI researchers). So, while CFAR does provide a service to individuals for money, donated money buys more services targeted at making altruistic people more effective and getting qualified people working on important hard problems.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 27 December 2013 05:05:01PM *  26 points [-]

Yes; this is correct. The workshops pay for themselves, and partially subsidize the rest of our activities; but SPARC, scholarships for EA folk, and running CFAR training at the effective altruism summit don't; nor does much desirable research. We should have a longer explanation of this up later today.

Edited to add: Posted.

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