i want to spend money on making there be more good alignment researchers and care about them actually caring about alignment. what would you recommend i do?
I think up until very recently funding Lightcone would have been a good bet at your scale (though you should of course be appropriately skeptical of me saying this). Funding projects doing good object-level work seems good.
Before I think about concrete recommendations, by “alignment researchers” do you mean people doing technical alignment work, or eval work, or do you include technical governance work like MIRI’s technical governance team? Or are you just using it as a proxy for work trying to make alignment go well in some form or another?
I think this is very hard thing to get right, and I don’t think there’s a scaleable way or org. that you can spend money on.
I think the current best bet would be to find existing people that are technical, driven, safety-pilled and already done some independent research, and fund them to continue doing that?
i want to spend money on making there be more good alignment researchers and care about them actually caring about alignment. what would you recommend i do?
I think up until very recently funding Lightcone would have been a good bet at your scale (though you should of course be appropriately skeptical of me saying this). Funding projects doing good object-level work seems good.
Before I think about concrete recommendations, by “alignment researchers” do you mean people doing technical alignment work, or eval work, or do you include technical governance work like MIRI’s technical governance team? Or are you just using it as a proxy for work trying to make alignment go well in some form or another?
Fund AFFINE
already did
awesome!!
I think this is very hard thing to get right, and I don’t think there’s a scaleable way or org. that you can spend money on.
I think the current best bet would be to find existing people that are technical, driven, safety-pilled and already done some independent research, and fund them to continue doing that?