Thanks for the correction! My own interaction with Lighthaven is event space foremost, then housing, then coworking; for the purposes of EA Community Choice we're not super fussed about drawing clean categories, and we'd be happy to support a space like Lighthaven for any (or all) of those categories.

For now I've just added the your existing project into EA Community Choice; if you'd prefer to create a subproject with a different ask that's fine too, I can remove the old one. I think adding the existing one is a bit less work for everyone involved -- especially since your initial proposal has a lot more room for funding. (We'll figure out how to do the quadratic match correctly on our side.)

I recommend adding "EA Community Choice" existing applications. I've done so for you now, so the project will be visible to people browsing projects in this round, and future donations made will count for quadratic funding match. Thanks for participating!

Welcome to the US; excited for your time at LessOnline (and maybe Manifest too?)

And re: 19., we're working on it!^[1]

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   (Sorry, that was a lie too.)

One person got some extra anxiety because their paragraph was full of TODOs (because it was positive and I hadn’t worked as hard fleshing out the positive mentions ahead of time).

I think you're talking about me? I may have miscommunicated; I was ~zero anxious, instead trying to signal that I'd looked over the doc as requested, and poking some fun at the TODOs.

FWIW I appreciated your process for running criticism ahead of time (and especially enjoyed the back-and-forth comments on the doc; I'm noticing that those kinds of conversations on a private GDoc seem somehow more vibrant/nicer than the ones on LW or on a blog's comments.)

most catastrophes through both recent and long-ago history have been caused by governments

Interesting lens! Though I'm not sure if this is fair -- the largest things that are done tend to get done through governments, whether those things are good or bad. If you blame catastrophes like Mao's famine or Hitler's genocide on governments, you should also credit things like slavery abolition and vaccination and general decline of violence in civilized society to governments too.

I'd be interested to hear how Austin has updated regarding Sam's trustworthiness over the past few days.

Hm I feel like a bunch of people have updated majorly negatively, but I haven't -- only small amounts. I think he eg gets credit for the ScarJo thing. I am mostly withholding judgement, though; now that the NDAs have been dropped, curious to see what comes to light (if nothing does, that would be more positive credit towards Sam, and some validation to my point that NDAs were not really concealing much).

Ah interesting, thanks for the tips.

I use filler a lot so thought the um/ah removal was helpful (it actually cut down the recording by something like 10 minutes overall). It's especially good for making the transcript readable, though perhaps I could just edit the transcript without changing the audio/video.

Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't sure how much effort to put into this producing this transcript (this entire podcast thing is pretty experimental); good to know you were trying to read along.

It was machine transcribed via Descript but then I did put in another ~90min cleaning it up a bit, removing filler words and correcting egregious mistranscriptions. I could have spent another hour or so to really clean it up, and perhaps will do so next time (or find some scaleable way to handle it eg outsource or LLM). I think that put it in an uncanny valley of "almost readable, but quite a bad experience".

Yeah I meant her second post, the one that showed off the emails around the NDAs.

Hm, I disagree and would love to operationalize a bet/market on this somehow; one approach is something like "Will we endorse Jacob's comment as 'correct' 2 years from now?", resolved by a majority of Jacob + Austin + <neutral 3rd party>, after deliberating for ~30m.