Lightcone
Article
Lightcone is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between June 25, 2023 and December 09, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Lightcone is a team that operates important AI alignment and rationalist community infrastructure”; “Congratulations/thanks to all the organizers and the Lightcone team”; “Lightcone handles infrastructure for the rationalist community”. It most often appears alongside Berkeley, Less Wrong, ACX.
Metadata
- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: June 25, 2023
- Last seen: December 09, 2024
Appears In
Related Pages
-
- Berkeley (2 shared issues)
-
- Less Wrong (2 shared issues)
-
- ACX (1 shared issues)
-
- ACX bulletin board (1 shared issues)
-
- ACX Discord (1 shared issues)
-
- ACX subreddit (1 shared issues)
-
- Africa (1 shared issues)
-
- Alignment Forum (1 shared issues)
-
- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
-
- Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
-
- Bentham’s Bulldog (1 shared issues)
-
- Brandon Hendrickson (1 shared issues)
External Links
Source Context
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.
4: Lightcone is a team that operates important AI alignment and rationalist community infrastructure, including the Less Wrong website, the Alignment Forum, and the Rose Garden Inn (a venue for various alignment-related conferences and projects - also where we have Berkeley ACX meetups!) They're running low on money due to Rose Garden renovations being unexpectedly expensive and grants being unexpectedly thin, and are asking for a few 6+ figure grants to help tide them through this difficult period. If you're a wealthy person or grantmaker interested in AI alignment, see here for more information, or contact me at scott@slatestarcodex.com if you have questions, or get in touch with the head of Lightcone directly at habryka@lesswrong.com.
Inline links: see here for more information
1: It was great getting to meet many of you at Manifest! Congratulations/thanks to all the organizers and the Lightcone team. I’ll write up the conference, but probably not until next week. Now that forecasting people can think about something other than Manifest, I hope to have the impact certs judged in the next few weeks, then start planning ACX Grants.
Lightcone handles infrastructure for the rationalist community. They run the Less Wrong website and the Lighthaven campus (where we’ve held the past several Berkeley ACX meetups). You can read their pitch here, and donate here. Many of us have enjoyed and benefited from their work, and now would be a great time to give something back (and if you donate enough, they’ll name a bench after you). Warning that the (not affiliated with Lightcone) donation site quietly tries to add a 15% tip to themselves, and you should un-add it if you don’t want to tip them.