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We can make the computation better by improving the existing nodes (more productive/rational/smart), adding more nodes (recruiting), and improving the information flow (discussion, knowledge-aggregation, coordination of research). 2/N
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LessWrong already does this a lot. By being a mix of Medium, Reddit, Quora/StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc, we help people learn, think, share, and discuss. But we can do more. As innovators in tools for collective research, we can go well beyond existing sites and designs. 3/N
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We've also realized that our community needs supporting offline too. We want to support the people who are working to optimize humanity's future in whatever ways are helpful: software, office space, medical care, housing, conferences, research assistants. Whatever! 4/N
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To accomplish this we need versatile generalists who are prepared to jump from task to task, and domain to domain, gaining skills and creatively solving whatever problems we need to take on. "Haven't done this before" is the new normal. 5/N
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Last October LW shipped grantmaking software used to move tens of millions of dollars. In December, self-published print books and generated machine learning art, in May ran a 60-person retreat, in August designed and launched a co-working space. Not things we'd done before! 6/N
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We're basically going to work on **whatever** is required to build and support a community of people that is capable of helping humanity overcome the challenges we face this century. 7/N
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Oh, we figured it was a bit confusing to lump all our activities under the "LessWrong" brand, so we've organized as "Lightcone Infrastructure". LessWrong continues as one (but only one) major project. 8/N
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The immigration problem does indeed suck. Note that I don't think it's entirely impossible to get around the problem of not having a technical visa (e.g. the O1 visa). We'd definitely be up for Trying Hard to solve this for someone we really wanted to work with. —Ben
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