(My plus is conditional on me not being the adjudicator)

SFF is matching donations on some orgs through the end of 2025 (see the list), which signals which orgs they want more people to donate to.

As I work for an org which receives matching, I think it's important to note this has nothing to do with which orgs SFF likes best.

When you apply for an SFF grant, you can opt into receiving some of your funds as matching pledges. That gives you more weight in the S-Process algorithm; the S-Process treats it like it's able to give you >$1 per dollar it spends.

So it's just about what orgs felt would be best for their fundraising, not endorsement from the SFF.

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Fire alarms basically don't help with fire deaths at all

Is that true? I don't think there's amazing evidence, but my sense is that it's sufficient to expect fire alarms help. I think the study designs look like:

• Difference in fire deaths when there are working fire alarms. To help with confounders, they try and do within neighbourhood comparison. Obviously that won't be sufficient, but still
• Do a campaign in a neighbourhood to get people to install fire alarms, and see the before and after of fire deaths. Unfortunately, I think most campaigns also include education, and at least increase the saliency of fire, so that makes it harder to tell
• Tending to see things like earlier evacuation with fire alarms, and an association between evacuation time and mortality

*Lighthaven->Lightcone (at least in the case of SFF matching)

Reading the May 14 update, it looks like it describes adding the last paragraph of Habryka's opening blockquote. If that's right, he goes on to describe why this exclusion wouldn't trigger here.

Related: The Middleman Economy (book) and EconTalk episode.

To tie the two comments together explicitly: an n-person meeting, with each person giving an update, requires nx clock-minutes, and each clock minute spends n person-minutes, leading to (n^2)x person-minutes in an n-person meeting.

You're looking for this section, btw

user:annasalamon burning man. Sadly, it doesn't like we support quotes with user: searches. I'll file a bug about it

I think most of the value is in the publishing, rather than the amount of content. I think probably the word minimum should be less. If I look through world spirit sock puppet (IMO a great blog), the majority of the posts seem to be <500 words. It's possible that it's just too hard to police quality, or at least effort, with shorter posts. In that case, maybe it's worth increasing the proof of work.