“Organizations I’d recommend for funding” by So8res

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 dollars 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 [...] --- First published: November 3rd, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jNs9CxEbPxFdjnGA2/organizations-i-d-recommend-for-funding --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO .