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I'd just like to say I really admire the level of organization and coordination displayed here. It increases my confidence in MIRI and makes me more likely to donate. Congratulations Malo!
Glad to hear it, and thanks for the kind words!
In addition, and in case people forget, you may want to post this on the LW Facebook page, both now-ish and right before the event starts.
I'm sure there are ways to do that, but very few people know how to use those tools.
As for MIRI staff staying up there are other reasons to do so, such as monitoring the giving patterns of other orgs, and monitor our attempts to win matching and coordinate those individuals.
(Also FWIW, I think you could have made the suggestion about automating the process, which is a great and helpful idea, in a much nicer and constructive fashion.)
Will Bitcoin donations count for this?
They will not :(
All donations must be made through our page on Razoo. Razoo only accepts credit cards and debit cards.
It seems like one of the biggest issues will be making sure donors know what other donors are doing during this time period, to prevent overfilling of matching funds, to make sure the right number of people try to spike the donation box at 5, and to coordinate Tyler's "split up donations" idea during non-peak hours. Maybe there could be a single comment here that is being edited through the day so donors know what the best thing to do at that time is? (preliminary idea)
For those of us who might not be able to spare $500, but still want to maximize our impact with a couple hundred, will you be posting a finalized strategy at the end for medium sized and small donors?
We are coordinating through a Google Group which anyone can sign up for here. I add new people a few times a day.
I've also set up a Hipchat room (no account required) here: https://www.hipchat.com/g5XbLeBKR
I'll be updating the former with information leading up to the event, and was planning on using that plus the HipChat room to coordinate people on the day of the event.
I suspect our chosen strategy might change during the day depending on the giving patterns of the other orgs.
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MIRI is still trying to decide on the best attack plan. Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Here's some relevant data that I've collected:
- Scheduled donations don't count for any of the hourly matches/prizes.
- There is no limit to how many times one person can donate.
- “Individual gift” means a single donation by a donor.
- We will be able to see when golden tickets are won in real time.
- We will only find out who much matching we got at the end of each hour.
- There will be a leaderboard “displaying the top raising nonprofits and those with the most individual donors”.
- I'm still waiting to find out about whether we'll be able do see over all totals.
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Thanks for posting this. You beat us to is :)
Those planning on giving $500 or more, if you could email me at malo@intelligence.org that would be greatly appreciated.
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It is possible to schedule donation in advance here: http://svgives.razoo.com/story/Machine-Intelligence-Research-Institute (you can't select the hour though).
This should be the fall-back strategy if you can't make it on the planned time-slot.
I asked about this. All scheduled donations don't count towards any of the matching/prizes, so scheduling a donation is not recommended.
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er, you did? I don't see it.
That's weird . . .
Do you see it here?