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(The) Lightcone is nothing without its people: LW + Lighthaven's big fundraiser
girllich
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Why aren't the less wrong books available on amazon anymore, even as print on demand. Wouldn't that be additional revenue?

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7habryka
It was never much additional revenue. The reason is that Amazon got annoyed at us because of some niche compliance requirement for our Amazon France account, and has decided to block all of our sales until that's resolved. I think it's going to be resolved before the end of the year, but man has it been a pain.  If you come by Lighthaven you can also buy the books in-person! :P
First Lighthaven Sequences Reading Group
girllich
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You are overlapping with the thursday night meetup, fwiw

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3Ben Pace
Oops! Sorry about that. I couldn't find an event that night, but I see now there's a Thursday Dinners group. The meetup would be very welcome to come join our sequence reading group this week, and we're serving dinner :)
Higher-effort summer solstice: What if we used AI (i.e., Angel Island)?
girllich
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I love solstice, but also I like being able to leave at any time. There's people of all ages, and some ages have different needs than others.

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1Rachel Shu
Do you think it’d influence your decision strongly if the organizers were to charter a small motorboat to take people back to Tiburon on-demand? The ferries run every hour, the boat could make an additional two trips an hour, so average waiting time would be 20 minutes and often the boat would be immediately available. It’s still 45 min from Tiburon back to Berkeley.
Lightcone Infrastructure/LessWrong is looking for funding
girllich
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There are things which I would be glad to support- like LW infra, and things that I'd prefer not to support, like SERI. What are my options?

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Ben Pace
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For the record, our relationship to supporting events for this ecosystem is changing from something like "all of our resources are the same, here have my venue for free if you need it" to "markets and pricing are a great way for large masses of people to coordinate on the value of a good or service, let's coordinate substantially via trade". 

For instance, during a previous cohort of SERI MATS scholars at the Lightcone Offices, I spent a couple of weeks of work adding a second floor and getting it furnished and doing interior design, hiring another sup... (read more)

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4habryka
At least for the coming year, our expenses are pretty entangled between all the different projects in a way that makes differentially funding things hard. I do take preferences of our donors on how to focus our efforts into account, so donating and just telling us that you would prefer us to work more on one kind of thing vs. another will have some effect.  My guess is you will mostly just have to average our impact across different areas and decide whether the whole portfolio is above your bar.