Do you feel the same way about MIRI and FHI advertising here? (Or CEA or GiveWell?)
CFAR strikes me as the organization that's uniquely closely-aligned with LW, or at least with LW as it describes itself. (A blog about "refining the art of human rationality" and "improving your reasoning and decision-making skills" where people collaborate and network about personal obstacles and challenging high-impact problems.)
Do you feel the same way about MIRI and FHI advertising here? (Or CEA or GiveWell?)
Yes, to the extent that I don't think there should be posts on here asking for funds for these orgs from people. It's perfectly fine to have discussion about their merits in the context of EA or in their own discussions, but again, I do not like that this site is used as a soundboard for soliciting donations.
Clearly, the community consensus is against my opinion, if these vote spreads are any indication.
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.