This is an offer to donate this amount to the project on the condition that it eventually becomes active. Otherwise, your funds will remain in your Manifund account.
General support for blogger Elizabeth Van Nostrand. (acesounderglass.com).
Enable Elizabeth to work on public-good producing projects of her choosing, without worrying about per-project fundraising.
Fund investments in capacity such as a writing tutor or a deeper studies on particular topics..
In general the end product of these projects are blog posts, however they may also include private conversations with decision makers. Projects may be mothballed if they prove to be infohazards.
Donors will achieve this by giving me a source of income not dependent on particular output.
Projects of Elizabeth’s choosing over the coming months. .
Elizabeth has been writing at acesounderglass.com for 10 years. Projects in the last year include:
Prophylactics against upper respiratory infections
What went wrong with Effective Altruism?
Chaos theory as a case study in paradigm development
Elizabeth has another multi-month illness and is unable to work for months.
Monthly: I have a patreon that pays ~$400/post (and will likely soon convert to $400-$800/month).
September 2024: $646 from small donors for general support
April 2024: $35k follow up grant on vegan nutrition and epistemics (Lightspeed)
April 2024: $3k follow up grant on development of scientific paradigms (Lightspeed)
This includes only altruistic funding and general purpose support, not client work.