As many LessWrong readers may have seen there was recently this post ostensibly aimed at creating common knowledge about Leverage Research.

While Leverage Research is no longer actively involved in the Rationality community, from the comments and upvotes it seems that there is both continued interest in Leverage Research within the Rationality community and a substantial lack of information—even about our more recent work—and context about our history. This post, along with my reply to the recent post, aims to correct some of that.

As relevant background, my name is Larissa Hesketh-Rowe. I work as the Public Engagement Specialist at Leverage Research and am posting on the organization’s behalf.

I’ve worked at Leverage Research since 2019. Before that, I worked at the Centre for Effective Altruism, from 2016 - 2019, the final year of which I was the CEO.

This means I wasn't involved with Leverage Research during the initial tumultuous phase of research which is sometimes called "Leverage 1.0," (I’m not sure I’d even heard of them until 2017) but I do know many of the people involved and I feel heartfelt gratitude to them for the work they did that makes our present work possible. I have also only been tangentially involved in the Rationality community, primarily through my involvement in Effective Altruism (EA).

About Leverage Research

Leverage is a non-profit research institute that studies and supports scientific advance. We run long-term research programs in areas related to epistemology, sociology, and psychology and apply findings from our research to support efforts by others to make progress in science and technology.

We are a four-person team based in the US. We are currently working remotely due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, although we hope to get a new office and return to having at least some staff working in person at some point towards the end of this year, or early 2022.

You can find out more about Leverage Research via:

Our Website: http://leverageresearch.org/
Our quarterly newsletter: https://www.leverageresearch.org/updates
Our 2019-2020 Annual Report: https://www.leverageresearch.org/annual-report-2019-2020
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leverageres
Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/LeverageResearch/
LinkedIn*: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leverage-research

(*we’re not that active on social media but I try to post oc...

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