Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need

Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial

'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public

Filming a feature-length documentary on risks from AI for a non-technical audience on streaming services

Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical

Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans)

human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project

accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses

Coursetexts

Open sourcing advanced science graduate courses at scale, to democratize higher level education.

Split Personality Training

Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens

Ozempic for Sleep: Research for Safely Reducing Sleep Needs

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Building Tooling to Map how Ideas Spread

The nooscope will deliver public tools to map how ideas spread, starting with psyop detection, within 18 months

[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference

My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network

Lightcone Infrastructure

Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects

Enable whistleblowers at AI companies

Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded)

Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora).

Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination

Combining "kickstarter" style functionality with transitional anonymity to decrease risk and raise expected value of participating in collective action.

AI Animals and Digital Minds 2025

Field building on AI's impact on nonhumans

PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding

Fund unique approaches to research, field diversification, and scouting of novel ideas by experienced researchers supported by PIBBSS research team

Augmentation Lab 2025: Prototyping Human-Aligned Futures

A 10-week Harvard/MIT residency exploring human augmentation via 'Rhizome Futurism' to build an interconnected, beneficial future.

Help me create a free programming school in my city

Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary

How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology

Metaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament

Travel Funding to present research at ICLR2025