You're pledging to donate if the project hits its minimum goal and gets approved. If not, your funds will be returned.
UPDATE
hi i'm eschatail and i hate the entire world. hmu on x because if you actually want to help, it gets done off the books. not on this retard ass platform full of leftist scum.
Admittedly I wrote this (rejected) LW post to kind of troll, despite the legitimacy of the information provided. Yes, I didn't feel like writing it all, so if you notice heavy AI prose, that's that.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zAGtSwzb7TgxqsGcb/agi-and-asi-alignment-and-uncomfortable-truths
The point of attempting to raise funds here is because I'd prefer to create an immensely intelligent autonomous system with more resources than I currently have. Which is basically nothing, given I am trapped due to life circumstances. That's not to say I'm unable to create this... it runs on basically anything, and I can thrash the ssd to get a few hundred gb to scale with (did I mention the scaling works out that a 1b parameter version takes about 85mb at runtime?) given we use storage as a method of computation it doesn't lead to the kind of slowdown you might assume... but anyways.
Yes, I know what the transformer black box is. I know how alignment works. I know what's wrong with the architecture, the code, the training process and data used therein...
The entire field is trying to paint a masterpiece by swinging a baseball bat at paint cans... and as hilarious as I find it to watch companies waste billions of dollars, I want a life. To be able to live somewhere. To eat and sleep normally.
If this project is funded, I will do what's right for humanity.
If it is not... spend time with those you love.