Lightcone Commons: what I funded and why

I am an evaluator for Lightcone Commons (LC). LC is a platform for applicants to submit projects, for evaluators to rank them and for funders to choose the funding orders of several evaluators. It is not a foundation, in that it doesn’t have money that it spends how it chooses. And I do not have a permanent position working for Lightcone Commons. I get paid 2% of any money that a funder chooses to direct via my funding order. This pays for my time and also for any research that I pay others to do. That said, what were my general and specific funding preferences? This is a version of what Lightcone published, it might be wrong, but theirs was definitely wrong (their headline numbers didn’t include funding that had been hidden) Lightcone also has a beautiful page for looking through public information here . General preferences: I like AI policy that creates the ability to slow down AI if necessary, but doesn’t automatically push for immediate pauses. I like policy orgs which people I know in US politics respect. My current understanding is that it’s organisations that work with the administration, are respected by Republicans or that the AI companies listen to. Bipartisan organisati