Some nice talks and lots of high quality people signed up, but 2 weeks late starting because I massively underestimated how long it would take to give personalized feedback to 300 applicants and also kept trying to use really unweildy software and turned out its faster to do it manually. and also didn’t get the research guides (https://moonshot-alignment-program.notion.site/Updated-Research-Guides-255a2fee3c6780f68a59d07440e06d53?pvs=74) ready in time and didn’t coordinate a lot of things properly.
Also, a lot of fuckups with luma, notion and google forms.
Overall worked in marketing the event okish, 298 signups, but extremely badly in running it due to disorganization on my part. I’m not put off by this though, because the first alignment evals hackathon was like this, then the second one, we learnt from that and it went really well.
Learning a lot from this one too and among other things, making our own events thing, because i recently saw the founder of luma saying on twitter that they’re ‘just vibecoding!’ and dont have a backend engineer and really frequently have a lot of pains when using luma https://test.ai-plans.com/events
Also, gonna be taking more time to prepare for the next event and only guaranteeing a max of 100 people feedback—free to the first 50 to apply and optional for up to 50 others who can pay $10 to get personalized feedback.
And gonna make very clear template schedules for the mentors, so that we (I) don’t waste their time, have things be vauge, them not actually getting people joining their research, etc.
Some nice talks and lots of high quality people signed up, but 2 weeks late starting because I massively underestimated how long it would take to give personalized feedback to 300 applicants and also kept trying to use really unweildy software and turned out its faster to do it manually. and also didn’t get the research guides (https://moonshot-alignment-program.notion.site/Updated-Research-Guides-255a2fee3c6780f68a59d07440e06d53?pvs=74) ready in time and didn’t coordinate a lot of things properly.
Also, a lot of fuckups with luma, notion and google forms.
Overall worked in marketing the event okish, 298 signups, but extremely badly in running it due to disorganization on my part. I’m not put off by this though, because the first alignment evals hackathon was like this, then the second one, we learnt from that and it went really well.
Learning a lot from this one too and among other things, making our own events thing, because i recently saw the founder of luma saying on twitter that they’re ‘just vibecoding!’ and dont have a backend engineer and really frequently have a lot of pains when using luma https://test.ai-plans.com/events
Also, gonna be taking more time to prepare for the next event and only guaranteeing a max of 100 people feedback—free to the first 50 to apply and optional for up to 50 others who can pay $10 to get personalized feedback.
And gonna make very clear template schedules for the mentors, so that we (I) don’t waste their time, have things be vauge, them not actually getting people joining their research, etc.