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  • Focus Area: Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
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  • Amount: $460,000

  • Award Date: May 2021

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    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $460,000 to LessWrong for general support. LessWrong.com is a community blog and website that seeks to improve reasoning and decision-making. This funding is intended to support work on LessWrong.com, as well the LessWrong team’s work on a number of other rationalist and effective altruism community websites and projects.

    This follows our April 2020 support.

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