Being ~50% of where people were thinking about AI alignment until about 2018 - putting out educational materials, running workshops and conferences, etc.
I think this is important to mention- from 2000 to 2018 they were doing basically all the heavy lifting, and 2018-2022 was a low period of contributions. That’s a pretty great ratio of peak to valley.
They also spent almost all of that second period trying to find a way out by coming across something big again, like they’d been for almost two years prior; their work with CFAR seems to me to have been a solid bet at the time (in fact I myself am still betting on CFAR in 2023, in spite of everything).
I think this is important to mention- from 2000 to 2018 they were doing basically all the heavy lifting, and 2018-2022 was a low period of contributions. That’s a pretty great ratio of peak to valley.
They also spent almost all of that second period trying to find a way out by coming across something big again, like they’d been for almost two years prior; their work with CFAR seems to me to have been a solid bet at the time (in fact I myself am still betting on CFAR in 2023, in spite of everything).
Can you point me to the work they did with CFAR?