Probably don’t update on this too much, but when I hear “Berkeley Genomics Project”, it sounds to me like a project that’s affiliated with UC Berkeley (which it seems like you guys are not). Might be worth keeping in mind, in that some people might be misled by the name.
Ok, thanks for noting. Right, we’re not affiliated—just located in Berkeley. (I’m not sure I believe people will commonly be misled thus, and, I mean, UC Berkeley doesn’t own the city, but will keep an eye out.)
(In theory I’m open to better names, though it’s a bit late for that and also probably doesn’t matter all that much. An early candidate in my head was “The Demeter Project” or something like that; I felt it wasn’t transparent enough. Another sort of candidate was “Procreative Liberty Institute” or similar, though this is ambiguous with reproductive freedom (though there is real ideological overlap). Something like “Genomic Emancipation/Liberty org/project” could work. Someone suggested Berkeley Genomics Institute as sounding more “serious”, and I agreed, except that BGI is already a genomics acronym.)
I also kinda thought this. I actually thought it sounded sufficiently academic that I didn’t realize at first it was your org, instead of some other thing you were supporting.
I’m very dubious that we’ll solve alignment in time, and it seems like my marginal dollar would do better in non-obvious causes for AI safety. So I’m very open to funding something like this in the hope we get a AI winter / regulatory pause etc.
I don’t know if you or anyone else has thought about this, but what is your take on whether this or WBE is the more likely chance to getting done successfully? WBE seems a lot more funding intensive, but also possible to measure progress easier and potentially less regulatory burdens?
The Berkeley Genomics Project is fundraising for the next forty days and forty nights at Manifund: https://manifund.org/projects/human-intelligence-amplification—berkeley-genomics-project
Probably don’t update on this too much, but when I hear “Berkeley Genomics Project”, it sounds to me like a project that’s affiliated with UC Berkeley (which it seems like you guys are not). Might be worth keeping in mind, in that some people might be misled by the name.
Ok, thanks for noting. Right, we’re not affiliated—just located in Berkeley. (I’m not sure I believe people will commonly be misled thus, and, I mean, UC Berkeley doesn’t own the city, but will keep an eye out.)
(In theory I’m open to better names, though it’s a bit late for that and also probably doesn’t matter all that much. An early candidate in my head was “The Demeter Project” or something like that; I felt it wasn’t transparent enough. Another sort of candidate was “Procreative Liberty Institute” or similar, though this is ambiguous with reproductive freedom (though there is real ideological overlap). Something like “Genomic Emancipation/Liberty org/project” could work. Someone suggested Berkeley Genomics Institute as sounding more “serious”, and I agreed, except that BGI is already a genomics acronym.)
I also kinda thought this. I actually thought it sounded sufficiently academic that I didn’t realize at first it was your org, instead of some other thing you were supporting.
I’m very dubious that we’ll solve alignment in time, and it seems like my marginal dollar would do better in non-obvious causes for AI safety. So I’m very open to funding something like this in the hope we get a AI winter / regulatory pause etc.
I don’t know if you or anyone else has thought about this, but what is your take on whether this or WBE is the more likely chance to getting done successfully? WBE seems a lot more funding intensive, but also possible to measure progress easier and potentially less regulatory burdens?
I discuss this here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jTiSWHKAtnyA723LE/overview-of-strong-human-intelligence-amplification-methods#Brain_emulation
You can see my comparisons of different methods in the tables at the top: