I’m excited to see what comes of this! Within a few months I’ll do another round of advertising + making decisions.
I want to emphasize that given the evaluation process, this definitely shouldn’t be read as a strong negative judgment (or endorsement) of anyone’s application.
If you have 120K dollars to spend next year on this, you might get more impact by setting up a monthly prize for best online research about AI risk. Similar to the Quantified Health prize that ran on LW a while ago. The payoffs could be 5K for first place, 2K for second, 1K for third, leaving you with 2K per month for judging and administrivia.
In the first round I’m planning to pay:
$10k to Ryan Carey
$10k to Chris Pasek
$20k to Peter Scheyer
I’m excited to see what comes of this! Within a few months I’ll do another round of advertising + making decisions.
I want to emphasize that given the evaluation process, this definitely shouldn’t be read as a strong negative judgment (or endorsement) of anyone’s application.
Paul—how widely do you want this shared?
Fine with it being shared broadly.
If you have 120K dollars to spend next year on this, you might get more impact by setting up a monthly prize for best online research about AI risk. Similar to the Quantified Health prize that ran on LW a while ago. The payoffs could be 5K for first place, 2K for second, 1K for third, leaving you with 2K per month for judging and administrivia.