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I was a grant evaluator for Lightcone Commons last round. Funders disbursed about $45mil through the program, and this included funding roughly my first $6.8 million worth of recommendations. There are other projects I would've preferred to fund over what I did fund, but nobody was doing them and so they weren't on offer. Here's a series of projects that I'd fund in the next round, in rough order of priority. The next round is starting now, and is scheduled to end mid-December. I expect rounds to continue at similar speed. I expect similar amounts of funding will route through me in future rounds.
Disclaimer: I am NOT looking to manage anyone in doing any of these projects. I am not looking to help someone get started. Initiative and leadership and management capacity (and people that can just figure out how the heck to get something done, and that have the connections to do it) are the critical bottlenecks here. I can throw money at promising pitches, but not really help them all that much otherwise.
1. Leaders for a broad public movement against superintelligent machines. In the wake of Coxon Day, a number of random people around the country have reached out to me asking if there's any way to coordinate and organize a grassroots movement. I wish there was a place to point them, that would help support them in organizing people locally and ultimately working towards some big march. My belief is that it's important for there to exist such a movement that avoids the "omnicause attractor" (of being attended only by people who also pick some particular side about environmental issues or middle eastern diplomacy issues or whatever). Further, I think it's important for it to avoid taking a stance on other AI issues: There's a lot of people who hate AI's effect on artists, and people who hate AI's effects on the education system, and people who hate AI's effects on the environment; and there's also people who like current AI as a technology but still don't want to go ext