I'd love to donate to Lightcone ~5K€ next year, but as long as it's not tax-deductible in France I'll keep to French AI safety orgs as the French non-profit donation tax break is stupidly good: it can basically triple the donation amount and reduce income tax to 0.

I know that Mieux Donner, a new French effective giving org, is acting as French tax-deductible front for a number of EA organisations. I'll contact them to check whether they could forward a donation to Lightcone and give an update under this comment.

I find that by focusing on the legs of the dancer, I managed to see it oscillating: half-turn clockwise then half-turn counterclockwise with the feet towards the front. However, this always break when I start looking at the arms. Interesting

I'm currently doing the Rethink Wellbeing IFS Course, and it's given me so much understanding of myself so quickly with no diminishing returns in sight yet, that it felt like the perfect time to apply More Dakka.

Therefore, I've used this list to generate ideas of how to apply More Dakka to my internal exploration, and found 30 strategies that sound super helpful :) 

Makes sense! Someone yesterday mistakenly read it as the date of the event, so this confusion seems to happen.

When I'm looking at the date, it says 10th November 2023, but underneath it says 27th September. Seems like a bug

I guess the word Mnestic was originally introduced in the popular SCP story There is no Antimemetics Division.

I expect it could be mildly valuable to index the previously existing calendars and give the best current alternative. I don't think it will bring much though.

Where is the event? There is no location information

This is list is aimed at people visiting the Bay area and searching how to get in contact with the local community. Currently, the Lighthaven website does not list events happening there, so I don't think it's relevant for someone who is not searching for a venue.

Possibly a larger index of rationalist resources in the Bay would be useful, including potential venues.

I expect that basic econ models and their consequences on the motivations of investors are already mostly known in the AI safety community, even if only through vague statements like "VCs are more risk tolerant than pension funds".

My main point in this post is that it might be the case that AI labs successfully removed themselves from the influence of investors, so that it actually matters very little what the investors of AI Labs want or do. I think that determining whether this is the case is important, as in this case our intuitions about how companies work generally would not apply to AI labs.