Donors want to know that if they donate to keep it alive, you’re going to restructure the program towards something more financially viable
Most of these suggestions are based on speculations. I’d like a bit more evidence that it would actually make a difference, before re-structuring. Funders are welcome to reach out to us.
Funding is currently especially bad. It’s possible that if AISC can just survive a bit longer, things will get better.
AISC has survived each year since the program started in 2017. Which means just doing what we think is the best program, has a pretty good track record of being funded.
I think it would be valuable for AI Safety Camp to refresh its website in order to make it look more professional and polished. The easiest way to accomplish this would be to make it a project in the next round.
No it wouldn’t. Leading a project is a lot of work, significantly more work than it’s worth putting into our website, and we’re almost guaranteed to end up with something that is significantly higher work to maintain. We recently moved from WordPress to Google Site because it’s the lowest effort platform to work with.
Most of these suggestions are based on speculations. I’d like a bit more evidence that it would actually make a difference, before re-structuring. Funders are welcome to reach out to us.
Responding to my self.
There is one thing (that is mentioned in the post) we know is getting in the way of funding, which is Remmelt’s image. But there wouldn’t be and AISC without Remmelt.
I don’t expect pretending to be two different programs would help much.
However, donating anonymously is an option. We have had anonymous donations in the past from people who don’t want to entangle their reputation with ours.
Most of these suggestions are based on speculations. I’d like a bit more evidence that it would actually make a difference, before re-structuring. Funders are welcome to reach out to us.
Funding is currently especially bad. It’s possible that if AISC can just survive a bit longer, things will get better.
AISC has survived each year since the program started in 2017. Which means just doing what we think is the best program, has a pretty good track record of being funded.
No it wouldn’t. Leading a project is a lot of work, significantly more work than it’s worth putting into our website, and we’re almost guaranteed to end up with something that is significantly higher work to maintain. We recently moved from WordPress to Google Site because it’s the lowest effort platform to work with.
Responding to my self.
There is one thing (that is mentioned in the post) we know is getting in the way of funding, which is Remmelt’s image. But there wouldn’t be and AISC without Remmelt.
I don’t expect pretending to be two different programs would help much.
However, donating anonymously is an option. We have had anonymous donations in the past from people who don’t want to entangle their reputation with ours.
Fwiw www.aisafetyanz.com.au was a pretty easy setup using wix. Maybe 10 hours of work (initially).