15 months later, I see Ezrah updated his post to say his views have changed, and so have mine. I think you were basically right. Not about "pro-Israel propaganda talking points", because I believe Ezrah was genuine; but you were right about the urgent need, in that time already, for a ceasefire.

In the turmoil following the Oct 7 massacre I was far too optimistic about the possibility of the Israeli war effort being guided by restrained and relatively benign figures. It took me another couple months after the post to start protesting for a ceasefire myself, and another few months to basically give up. Then, Israel breaking the ceasefire a few weeks ago was the final straw.

I only learned from this post that Moskowitz left the forum, and it makes me somewhat sad. On the one hand, I'm barely on the forum myself and I might have made the same decision in his position. On the other hand, I thought it very important that he was participating in the discourse about the projects he was funding, and now the two avenues of talking with him (through DEAM and the forum) are gone. I'm not sure these were the right platforms to begin with, but it'd be nice if there were some other public platform like that.

Interesting, I've lived in Haifa my whole life and never heard of it.

Israeli-daycared

That's a new one. What does it mean?

I think it was "will replace" when I wrote the comment but now it's "must replace"? If that's the case, it's better now.

Positive suggestion, but the title for the post is confusing

Zero effect is not the worst case.

Upvoted because I'm glad you answered the question (and didn't use EA grant money for this).

Disagreevoted because as an IMO medalist, I neither think science olympiad medalists are really such a useful audience, nor do I see any value in disseminating said fanfiction to potential alignment researchers.

Personally I don't believe in a "trusted person", as a concept. I think EA has had its fun trying to be a high trust environment where some large things are kept private, and it backfired horribly.

I'll take <agree> <disagree> votes to indicate how compelling this would be to readers.

That was the aim of my comment as well, so I do hope more people actually vote on it.

I was initially impressed and considered donating to the fund in the future, but then noticed the ~$300K grant without a public report. I can't see myself donating to a fund that doesn't say what it's doing with almost 30% of its disbursed funds.