May 06, 2014
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Not Even A Real Links Post, Just A Blatant Ad

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https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/06/not-even-a-real-links-post-just-a-blatant-ad/
Scott Alexander promotes a charity event, encouraging donations to MIRI or Sankara Eye Foundation to help them win valuable services. Longer summary
Scott Alexander is promoting a charity event where the organization with the most unique donors of $10 or more by midnight wins valuable services. He encourages readers to donate to MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute), which works on ensuring a positive singularity and friendly AI. MIRI is close to the top place with only a few hours left. Scott also mentions the option to donate to the current leader, Sankara Eye Foundation, which provides eye care for poor Indian children. Shorter summary
Recurring tags: effective altruism (94), AI safety (66), charity (29), Eliezer Yudkowsky (28), Less Wrong (17), MIRI (9)

[EDIT: This is over now. Donating now will be totally useless aside from helping make the world a better place.]

There’s a charity thing going on today where whoever gets the most unique donors of $10 or more by midnight tonight wins $250,000 a bundle of useful services supposedly valued at $250,000.

MIRI, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, is a group that works on ensuring a positive singularity and friendly AI. They were part-founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky, they’re closely affiliated with Less Wrong, and they briefly employed me). They are currently thirteen only eight donors away from the top place, with only four hours left to go (I think they’re on California time).

If you are concerned about the far future, please consider giving them a quick $10 donation at this link to tip them over the edge.

EDIT1: Someone claimed anonymous donations don’t count, so you might want to donate under your real name

EDIT2: Or if you’re interested in eye care for poor Indian children, you can donate to the current leader, Sankara Eye Foundation. Everyone else seems too far behind to catch up

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