> Give Terrence Tao 500 000$ to work on AI alignement six months a year, letting him free to research crazy Navier-Stokes/Halting problem links the rest of his time… If money really isn’t a problem, this kind of thing should be easy to do.
Literally that idea has been proposed multiple times before that I know of, and probably many more times many years ago before I was around.
What was the response? (I mean, obviously it was “not interested”, otherwise it would’ve happened by now, but why?)
IDK, I would love to know! Like I said, it’s a mystery to me why this is happening.
I do remember some OpenPhil people telling me once that they tried paying high-caliber / excellent-CV academics a wad of cash to work on research topics relevant to OpenPhil… and they succeeded in getting them to do the research… but the research was useless.
Seconding this, considering we’ve got plenty of millionaires (and maybe a few billionaires?) in our community, I don’t see any good reason not to try something along these lines.
What was the response? (I mean, obviously it was “not interested”, otherwise it would’ve happened by now, but why?)
IDK, I would love to know! Like I said, it’s a mystery to me why this is happening.
I do remember some OpenPhil people telling me once that they tried paying high-caliber / excellent-CV academics a wad of cash to work on research topics relevant to OpenPhil… and they succeeded in getting them to do the research… but the research was useless.
Seconding this, considering we’ve got plenty of millionaires (and maybe a few billionaires?) in our community, I don’t see any good reason not to try something along these lines.