Lightcone Infrastructure
This century is critical for humanity. We build tech, infrastructure, and community to navigate it.
This century is critical for humanity. We build tech, infrastructure, and community to navigate it.
Humanity's future could be vast, spanning billions of flourishing galaxies, reaching far into our future light cone [1]. However, it seems humanity might never achieve this; we might not even survive the century. To increase our odds, we build services and infrastructure for people who are helping humanity navigate this crucial period.
even more than the light cone, depending on how the acausal trade stuff works out.
Learn more about what we do here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5n2ZQcbc7r4R8mvqc/the-lightcone-is-nothing-without-its-people-lw-lighthaven-s-5
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Our 2026 Fundraiser
We run LessWrong.com , Lighthaven.space and many other pieces of infrastructure dedicated to making the future of humanity go well. In 2025, we need about $2M to continue our operations for the next year. Most of that goes into development of LessWrong.com and adjacent projects, but we also worked on AI-2027.com and are working on its soon-to-be-released sequel. We built the website and online materials for Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky's book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" at ifanyonebuildsit.com , and are likely to do more work in that space. Last year around $500k of our funding went into supporting Lighthaven.space, running 35+ programs and large events with many thousands of attendees. I am still working on our big LessWrong fundraising post for this year, but for an overview of what we do and our philosophy you can check out last year's fundraiser post .
- Raised
- $1,404,191
- Goal
- $2,000,000
64 supporters
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Joseph Dougherty I've been it feels almost wildly successful lately, or at least more successful than I thought I'd be, and its all downstream of a paper. And I'm not sure how that paper exists without Lighthaven (met coauthor as a guest/office visitor duri...
Teri Young I have slowly been educating myself on LessWrong - and you have given me more to think about than my brain can sometimes process, for sure. Better to have such depth of resources available as we are all on different parts of our path. Car...
Élise Souche I got Eliezer Yudkowsky's books DRM-free. So this way I sort of pay for them, and add a bonus to thank for the great work of the LessWrong community.
Simon Lermen I gave 600 bucks total this year (500 last year) lesswrong and lighthaven are great
Clément Dumas I feel very grateful for the time I spent in lighthaven during MATS 7!
Dux Rat Thanks for the revival of LW 2.0 and rationality in 2017-20