I already planned to donate to Thane before this agenda was written up. I haven't taken the time to fully understand this agenda. But based on the first post, I roughly agree with the comments on the post from Steven and Rohin, and I also left my own comment mentioning that going for some pivotal act directly might be easier.

If Thane sees some avenue of making this work, that feels alive to them, I think it makes sense for them to pursue, though (with the caveat of fork risks). Ambitious projects are great for learning.

This is one of the few agendas that give me [glimpses of hope](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j9Q8bRmwCgXRYAgcJ/miri-announces-new-death-with-dignity-strategy#comments). I don't have that much money to spare at the moment, but I just got a job and I can't believe this still has so little funding, so 10% of my income so far might as well go here.

The only reason I hesitated to donate is that I still feel confused about the capability externalities of most work on interpretability.