228 – The Deep Lore of LightHaven, with Oliver Habryka

Oliver tells us how Less Wrong instantiated itself into physical reality, along with a bit of deep lore of foundational Rationalist/EA orgs.

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LINKS

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LightHaven

Oliver’s very in-depth post on the funding situation

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Eneasz’s nominated 2023 post/story on LessWrong (you can also read his review of it on his blog)

Matt Freeman’s post “The Parable of the King and the Random Process”

00:00:05 – The Birth of LightHaven

00:23:20 – The FTX Collapse

00:38:08 – The deal with Leverage Research

00:59:42 – Why $3,000,000?

01:46:31 – Too based for Big Phil

01:58:52 – Guild of the Rose

02:01:00 – The Real Fanfic nominated

02:03:43 – Thank the Supporter!



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