It was honestly a statement that was so clearly wrong in the straightforward interpretation that my guess was you obviously meant to convey something different than the obvious interpretation, but then I didn't really put in the effort to reflect on that. 

Thank you! 

I found this quite helpful, thank you!

I think it’s probably pretty easy to identify the top political candidates. These are the people like Alex Bores, who have a track record of getting hard legislation through their legislature and leave public evidence of strongly understanding the issue TODO LINK

A link would actually be nice. 

Thank you! And am glad to hear the trend of the amount of cognitive dissonance involved in donating to us is going down!

Thank you!

My sense is that bringing Lighthaven revenue-paying business that improves on their outside option is as good as some size of donation, but I'm not sure about the exact fungibility surface. Still, if you're thinking about donating, maybe think about also organizing an event! It'll cost nonnegative money, as good things often do, but I predict your event will probably go well, especially if it's for people outside the usual attendee set.

Yes, this is very true. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if for many weeks this year I would trade event revenue to donations at a mere 0.7 multiplier for bigger events (i.e. getting us a $100k event rental is as good getting us a $70k donations), and a 0.4-0.6 multiplier for smaller events (i.e. getting us a $40k event rental is as good as getting us a ~$15k donation).

I expect this to be less true in future years, as this year is the first time our summer will not have MATS taking place at Lighthaven, which means we have a lot of extra availability for events. This means the opportunity cost for an event on a weekend might approach something very low, and so the value of adding an event there ends up very high.

So yes, if you know an organization or project or group of people that might want to run something at Lighthaven, please introduce them to me, or reach out. It really would help us a lot.

Huh, yeah, seems reasonable as another "extremely rough Fermi estimate" anchor point!

Given very different norms of LW and EAF I don’t really know how to make this work. I think it’s kind of rare that people want to crosspost comments, and the risks from making it easy outweigh the benefits.

Yeah, I agree with this. I think they are generally decent on comments, but some users really spam them on posts. It’s on my list to improve the UI for that. 

Huh, I never knew that term had any such narrowly construed meaning. Good to know! Given that, I agree that this is a bad name for the thing Ray is talking about.