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Comment author: Valentine 24 May 2015 05:52:18PM 3 points [-]

To be clear, I can understand where your impression came from. I don't blame you. I spoke up purely to crush a rumor and clarify the situation.

I'll take your word that none of it was done with CFAR funding, but that's not the expectation a reasonable person might have from your very own website. If you want to distance yourself from HPMOR you might want to correct that.

That's a good point. I'll definitely consider it.

We're not trying to distance ourselves from HPMOR, by the way. We think it's useful, and it does cause a lot of people to show interest in CFAR.

But I agree, as a nonprofit it might be a good idea for us to be clearer about whom we are and are not paying. I'll definitely think about how to approach that.