Kickstarter
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Kickstarter is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 17, 2023 and February 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’ll be running a Kickstarter campaign next month”; ""I’ll give you a link you can use to get to the Kickstarter campaign once it’s set up.""; “looking for funding to start a Kickstarter campaign”. It most often appears alongside GiveWell, Mongolia, Twitter.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 17, 2023
- Last seen: February 10, 2024
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Related Pages
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- GiveWell (2 shared issues)
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- Mongolia (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- Tyler Cowen (2 shared issues)
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- YouTube (2 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- Abraham Davenport (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Book Review (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
“This is the prototype,” she tells you. “The Automated Land Acknowledger. I’ll be running a Kickstarter campaign next month.”
“Here, I’ll give you a link you can use to get to the Kickstarter campaign once it’s set up. If you’re one of the first ten donors, you get an automatic Gold package, which includes two ALAs for the price of one.”
45: I’ve written before about how most light boxes for seasonal affective disorder are much dimmer than the sun and would probably work better if they were brighter. A company called Brighter is trying to make 50,000 lumen lights, about 5x better than existing light boxes. They report that they’re looking for funding to start a Kickstarter campaign (apparently you need funding to start Kickstarters now?); you can reach the founder here if you’re interested.
Jordan Braunstein and Tetra Jones, $34,000 to work on assurance contracts. These are the general case of what Kickstarter does - coordinate people who all agree to do something if enough other people agree to make it worth their while. They want to branch out from Kickstarter’s funding-focused model into different forms of contract - for example, compacts for political action (eg Free State Project), dominant assurance contracts that incentivize people to overcome transaction costs, and “contigently anonymous” contracts where people can hide their identity until a certain threshold gets reached. Jordan and Tetra applied separately to start their own platforms, but have agreed to to work together on spartacus.app; you can contact them here if you want to help or participate in testing. I’m aware that another site, EnsureDone, is already trying something similar4. I’m funding Spartacus as a backup, but I like Ensure too and they should feel free to contact me if I can help in any way.