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
Fundraisers
Official fundraiser
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 have also been working on AI-2027.com and it's soon-to-be-released sequel, and been working on 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
- $500
- Goal
- $2,000,000
1 supporter
DonateDonors
Ari Zerner Reading group dinner
Jacob Grasemann They are doing work on AI safety, and that's something that needs doing.
Fabio Mazza 1Vital civilizational infrastructure. Worth supporting.
Rylan Schaeffer Thank you for all that you do :)
Saul Munn To the fundraiser: Our 2026 Fundraiser1