2011 Summer Matching Challenge Success!

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hkfLPhYtHpQoAzZM9/2011-summer-matching-challenge-success

The $125,000, 2011 Summer Matching Challenge was a success! We met our goal 2 days early, raising $250,000 total for Singularity Institute operations. Here is the blog post announcement.

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hkfLPhYtHpQoAzZM9/2011-summer-matching-challenge-success?commentId=ArCDQATFKPDLzsq6F

Wow, I’d love to see a timeline on that! When I donated, I recall there being less that $30K in the pot, and that was like 2 weeks ago.

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hkfLPhYtHpQoAzZM9/2011-summer-matching-challenge-success?commentId=zxrfabW8qaQTfwBHq

Yup. The timeline was even more a ‘hockey stick’ than it was last year, I think.

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I wonder where Eliezer’s announcement about the MoR update schedule fell relative to the hockey stick.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hkfLPhYtHpQoAzZM9/2011-summer-matching-challenge-success?commentId=3WMo8HtKwoJDrG4ri

Ditto verbatim, modulo numbers.

...I mean, I agree completely and I’m in the same situation, except that I don’t know how long ago it was and I don’t remember quite how much was in the pot.