CEEALAR Fundraiser 9: Concrete outputs after 29 months

post by CEEALAR (EA Hotel) · 2020-11-27T14:48:11.738Z · EA · GW · 2 comments

Contents

  Total expenses as of October 2020
  New outputs as of October 2020
      Outputs Key
    AI Safety related
      Michele Campolo:
      Linda Linsefors:
      Samuel Knoche:
      Luminita Bogatean:
    X-Risks related
      David Kristoffersson:
      Michael Aird:
      Aron Mill:
    Rationality & Community Building related
      Samuel Knoche:
      Denisa Pop:
    Global Health & Development related
    Animal Welfare related
      Rhys Southan:
    Events made possible by CEEALAR
    Testimonials from Grantees
      Linda Linsefors:
  Our Ask
None
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We have compiled a list of concrete outputs that CEEALAR residents have produced during their stays.

As [EA · GW] before [EA · GW], we note that interpreting this list comes with some caveats:

An up-to-date, live version of the list of outputs can be found at ceealar.org/outputs.

Total expenses as of October 2020

Money: So far ~£170,200 has been spent on hosting our residents, of which ~£24,200 was contributed by residents.

Time: ~11,800 person-days spent at CEEALAR.

Summary of concrete outputs, since CEEALAR’s inception in May 2018 

For the full list see the dedicated CEEALAR page here.

New outputs as of October 2020

Here we present new outputs since our last summary [EA · GW]; those from November 2019 - October 2020. (Note there are some outputs that are on our outputs page but are not included in any of our summaries as they are backdated).

Expenses for this period:

Money: ~£59,800 has been spent on hosting our residents, of which ~£6,100 was contributed by residents.

Time: ~4,100 person-days spent at CEEALAR (note that this is an average of ~11 people at CEEALAR over this period, as opposed to ~17 for the last update, down to a reduction in numbers resultant from the pandemic).

Outputs Key

Title with link [C] (K)
C = counterfactual likelihood of happening without CEEALAR.
K = Karma on EA Forum, Less Wrong, (Less Wrong; Alignment Forum).

Michele Campolo:

Linda Linsefors:

Organized the AI Safety Technical Unconference (October 2019)

Anonymous:

Samuel Knoche:

NLP implementations [5%]

Luminita Bogatean:

David Kristoffersson:

Justin Shovelain:

Michael Aird:

(First two with coauthors; first and third mostly written before arriving at CEEALAR.)

Aron Mill:

Rationality & Community Building related

Samuel Knoche:

Denisa Pop:

Global Health & Development related

Kris Gulati:

Derek Foster:

Rhys Southan:

Applied to a number of PhD programs in Philosophy and took up a place at Oxford University (Researching “Personal Identity, Value, and Ethics for Animals and AIs”). [40%]

Accepted to give a talk and a poster to the academic session of EAG 2020 in San Francisco.

Published an essay, Re-Orientation, about some of the possible personal and societal implications of sexual orientation conversion drugs that actually work. [90%]

Events made possible by CEEALAR

 AI Strategy and X-Risk Unconference (AIXSU [EA · GW])

Testimonials from Grantees

Linda Linsefors:

“I think the biggest impact EA Hotel [CEEALAR] did for me, was about self growth. I got a lot of help to improve, but also the time and freedom to explore. I tried some projects that did not lead anywhere, like Code to Give. But getting to explore was necessary for me to figure out what to do. I finally landed on organising, which I’m still doing. AI Safety Support probably would not have existed with out the hotel.”

Kris Gulati:

“The time at the Hotel [CEEALAR] was incredibly valuable to me. Counterfactually – if I wasn’t at the Hotel – I would have probably only been able to complete half of the Maths/Stats I learned. I probably wouldn’t have applied to any of the scholarships/grants/fellowships because I heard about them via residents at the Hotel. I also probably wouldn’t have had time to focus on completing my older research papers. Similarly, discussions with other residents spurred the new research ideas I’m working on.”

Our Ask

Do you like this initiative, and want to see it continue for longer, on a more stable footing? Do you want to cheaply buy time spent working full-time on work relating to EA, whilst facilitating a thriving EA community hub? Do you want to see more work in the same vein as the above? Then we would like to ask for your support.

We are hoping to build up our reserves to 12 months of runway. Our estimated shortfall is ~£5k/month from June onward (assuming numbers pick up with a decline in the pandemic by then). See our fundraiser page for more details.

As a registered charity in England and Wales (no. 1189768), donations to us are tax deductible as of 6th December 2019.

To donate, please or use our PayPal Giving Fund page , Facebook fundraiser or GoFundMe. 

If you’d like to give regular support, we are on Ko-Fi.

Contact us to donate directly via bank transfer and save in currency conversion losses (The preceding options have 0% fees and ~2% currency conversion losses. Revolut and Transferwise are good options with 0-1% losses in fees and currency exchange. Convert to GBP before sending.)

Previous posts in this series:

Written by others:

*this is the total cost of the project to date, not including the purchase of the building (£132,276.95 including building survey and conveyancing)

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comment by AlasdairGives · 2020-11-27T16:27:59.458Z · EA(p) · GW(p)

Minor typo - The DOI for Evaluating use cases for human challenge trials in accelerating SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development. Clinical Infectious Diseases  has a trailing e in the url which causes the link to fail

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↑ comment by CEEALAR (EA Hotel) · 2020-11-27T22:30:10.662Z · EA(p) · GW(p)

Thanks, fixed!