It seems that @Czynski changed the structure of the website and that entries are now stored in this folder.

Maybe you could DM him?

See the thread here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5n2ZQcbc7r4R8mvqc/the-lightcone-is-nothing-without-its-people?commentId=Tmra55pcMKahHyBcn

Does not look possible to have tax deductibility in France, no matter the indirection

Just got confirmation from Effektiv Spenden (with Mieux Donner input) that having this "fiscal sponsorship" setup does not change anything to whether a foreign org can receive tax-deductible donations from France.

Seems that no amount of indirection can enable Lightcone to be tax-deductible in France, short of actually having operations in France.

For now, it's still unclear whether donations will be tax-deductible in France. I'll contact Effektiv Spenden to check.

"Making nodes in one's head" → probably meant knots?

TL;DR: This post gave me two extremely useful handles to talk about a kind of internal struggle I've been grappling with for as long as I've been in the EA community.

This post seemed obviously true when I read it and I started reusing the concept in conversations, but it did not lead to a lot of internal changes. However, a few months later, having completely forgotten this post, I started practicing self therapy using Internal Family Systems, and then I uncovered a large conflict which after multiple sessions seemed to map really well to the two archetypes described in this post. I'm confident having read this post then made my progress substantially faster in untangling my mental mess.

I read Would You Work Harder In The Least Convenient Possible World? a year later, and it felt like a natural extension of this post, where Humo and Robutil map to Bob and Alice. Replacing guilt and Replacing fear seem related too; some sort of guide on how to get one's Robutil to accept that guilt and fear are not viable tools.

In the same vein, another guide I've been read which fits well into the "helping Humo and Robutil work together" is Introspect by Visakan.

(I only discovered this post in 2024, so I'm less sure it will stand the test of time for me)

This post is up there with The God of Humanity, and the God of the Robot Utilitarians as the posts that contributed the most to making me confront the conflict between wanting to live a good life and wanting to make the future go well.

I read this post while struggling half burnt out on a policy job, having lost touch with the fire that drove me to AI safety in the first place, and this imaginary dialogue brought back this fire I had initially found while reading HPMOR. I knew then that I could take no other choice than to move forward and continue fighting as hard as I could. Realizing that probably contributed ~25% of my productivity of the past two months.

I support the content note at the start. My fear based motivation has interacted badly with this urge to make the future go well, and led me into a cycle of burn out and demotivation. I wish there was a post that would help me make sense of how to stop shooting myself in the foot when I care so much.

I'd love a follow-up dialogue where instead of replying "I just kind of don’t really want to work harder.", Bob instead replied:

Bob: Part of my soul does want to follow your call, to work hard. I tried to do so in the past and badly burnt out. I'm afraid that if I take that as a goal again, I'll predictably end up burnt out and end up doing less than right now, so I've been protecting myself by not doing too hard. I now know that I won't ever be satisfied just doing my 10%, but I don't know how to proceed. What would you do in my place?

Update: Seems definitely not possible to get tax deduction in France for an American organisation.

This post from Don Efficace, the organisation which was trying to set up EA regranting in France, explains what are the constraints for the French tax deduction: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jWhFmavJ9cE2zE585/procedure-to-allow-donations-to-european-organizations-to-be

My bad, I mistook Mieux Donner for an older organisation that was trying to setup this.

I checked online, and it does not seem that it's possible to get the deduction for non-profits outside the EU even through a proxy, except if their action is related to France or is humanitarian.

Source: https://www.centre-francais-fondations.org/dons-transnationaux/

Completed! It was really fun. Thanks for the question to give appreciation to another LWer :)