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Metaculus Announces The Million Predictions Hackathon

ChristianWilliams10 Nov 2022 20:00 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(metaculus.medium.com)

Bounty for Evidence on Some of Palisade Research’s Beliefs

benwr and Jeffrey Ladish

23 Sep 2024 20:01 UTC

46 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

I Will Pay $500 To Anyone Who Can Convince Me To Cancel My Cryonics Subscription

ChrisHallquist11 Jan 2014 10:39 UTC

54 points

182 comments2 min readLW link

AI safety logo design contest, due mid-May

Adrian Cipriani28 Apr 2023 2:00 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Erdős Problems in Algorithmic Probability

Aidan Rocke11 Sep 2023 16:44 UTC

13 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

$250 prize for checking Jake Cannell’s Brain Efficiency

Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel26 Apr 2023 16:21 UTC

123 points

170 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing the Forecasting Innovation Prize

ozziegooen and NunoSempere

15 Nov 2020 21:12 UTC

69 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Revisiting the Manifold Hypothesis

Aidan Rocke1 Oct 2023 23:55 UTC

13 points

19 comments4 min readLW link

Prize for probable problems

paulfchristiano8 Mar 2018 16:58 UTC

60 points

63 comments4 min readLW link

Results: Circular Dependency of Counterfactuals Prize

Chris_Leong5 Apr 2022 6:29 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Replacing Karma with Good Heart Tokens (Worth $1!)

Ben Pace and habryka

1 Apr 2022 9:31 UTC

226 points

173 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Is there a manifold plot of all people who had a say in AI alignment?

skulk-and-quarrel31 Mar 2023 21:50 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy — $25k in prizes

owencb and AI Impacts

16 Apr 2024 10:10 UTC

82 points

17 comments8 min readLW link

(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Consider paying for literature or book reviews using bounties and dominant assurance contracts

Arjun Panickssery15 Jan 2023 3:56 UTC

57 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

$500 Bounty/Prize Problem: Channel Capacity Using “Insensitive” Functions

johnswentworth16 May 2023 21:31 UTC

40 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Prize for Alignment Research Tasks

stuhlmueller and William_S

29 Apr 2022 8:57 UTC

64 points

38 comments10 min readLW link

Announcing the Clearer Thinking micro-grants program for 2023

spencerg7 Aug 2023 15:21 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.clearerthinking.org)

$500 Bounty/Contest: Explain Infra-Bayes In The Language Of Game Theory

johnswentworth25 Mar 2023 17:29 UTC

83 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing the Inverse Scaling Prize ($250k Prize Pool)

Ethan Perez, Ian McKenzie and Sam Bowman

27 Jun 2022 15:58 UTC

171 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

$300 for the best sci-fi prompt

RomanS17 May 2023 4:23 UTC

40 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

The Bentham Prize at Metaculus

AABoyles27 Jan 2020 14:27 UTC

28 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

$500 Bounty Problem: Are (Approximately) Deterministic Natural Latents All You Need?

johnswentworth and David Lorell

21 Apr 2025 20:19 UTC

92 points

24 comments3 min readLW link

LessWrong is paying $500 for Book Reviews

Ruby14 Sep 2021 0:24 UTC

133 points

25 comments4 min readLW link

GoodAI announced “AI Race Avoidance” challenge with $15k in prize money

Jan_Kulveit18 Jan 2018 18:05 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.general-ai-challenge.org)

The LessWrong 2019 Review

habryka2 Dec 2020 11:21 UTC

113 points

47 comments9 min readLW link

Speed running everyone through the bad alignment bingo. $5k bounty for a LW conversational agent

ArthurB9 Mar 2023 9:26 UTC

140 points

33 comments2 min readLW link

Announcing the Quantified Health Prize

Zvi2 Dec 2011 6:01 UTC

73 points

141 comments1 min readLW link

Launching the AI Forecasting Benchmark Series Q3 | $30k in Prizes

ChristianWilliams8 Jul 2024 17:20 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.metaculus.com)

We Built a Tool to Protect Your Dataset From Simple Scrapers

TurnTrout, Edward Turner, Dipika Khullar and royrin

25 Jul 2025 5:44 UTC

55 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

Good Heart Week: Extending the Experiment

Ben Pace2 Apr 2022 7:13 UTC

97 points

92 comments3 min readLW link

Announcing AI Alignment Awards: $100k research contests about goal misgeneralization & corrigibility

Orpheus16 and Olive Branch

22 Nov 2022 22:19 UTC

74 points

20 comments4 min readLW link

Aligned Objectives Prize Competition

Prometheus15 Jun 2023 12:42 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(app.impactmarkets.io)

[Question] What are some real life Inadequate Equilibria?

Eli Tyre29 Jan 2021 12:17 UTC

50 points

63 comments3 min readLW link

Announcement: AI alignment prize round 2 winners and next round

cousin_it16 Apr 2018 3:08 UTC

64 points

29 comments2 min readLW link

Prizes for ELK proposals

paulfchristiano3 Jan 2022 20:23 UTC

150 points

152 comments7 min readLW link

PIBBSS Fellowship: Bounty for Referrals & Deadline Extension

Anna Gajdova17 Jan 2022 16:23 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Exercises Prize of September 2019 ($1,000)

Ben Pace11 Sep 2019 0:19 UTC

89 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Bounty: Diverse hard tasks for LLM agents

Beth Barnes and Megan Kinniment

17 Dec 2023 1:04 UTC

49 points

31 comments16 min readLW link

$13,000 of prizes for changing our mind about who to fund (Clearer Thinking Regrants Forecasting Tournament)

spencerg20 Sep 2022 16:06 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(manifold.markets)

Send us example gnarly bugs

Beth Barnes, Megan Kinniment and Tao Lin

10 Dec 2023 5:23 UTC

77 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Ethan Perez on the Inverse Scaling Prize, Language Feedback and Red Teaming

Michaël Trazzi24 Aug 2022 16:35 UTC

26 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(theinsideview.ai)

$20K In Bounties for AI Safety Public Materials

Dan H, TW123 and ozhang

5 Aug 2022 2:52 UTC

71 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Winners of AI Alignment Awards Research Contest

Orpheus16 and Olive Branch

13 Jul 2023 16:14 UTC

115 points

4 comments12 min readLW link

(alignmentawards.com)

Good Heart Week Is Over!

Ben Pace8 Apr 2022 6:43 UTC

55 points

35 comments1 min readLW link

Effective Ideas is announcing a $100,000 blog prize

fin7 Mar 2022 21:45 UTC

45 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Seeking Student Submissions: Edit Your Source Code Contest

Aris26 Aug 2022 2:08 UTC

28 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Impactful Forecasting Prize for forecast writeups on curated Metaculus questions

elifland, sam_atis and yagudin

4 Feb 2022 20:06 UTC

41 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Visible Thoughts Project and Bounty Announcement

So8res30 Nov 2021 0:19 UTC

249 points

106 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

$295 bounty for new Singularity Institute logo design (crowd-sourced competition)

Louie28 Jan 2011 6:01 UTC

14 points

92 comments1 min readLW link

Contest: $1,000 for good questions to ask to an Oracle AI

Stuart_Armstrong31 Jul 2019 18:48 UTC

59 points

154 comments3 min readLW link

Prizes for ML Safety Benchmark Ideas

joshc28 Oct 2022 2:51 UTC

36 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Oops Prize update

Benquo20 Apr 2018 9:10 UTC

21 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

# Announcement of AI-Plans.com Critique-a-thon September 2023

Kabir Kumar14 Sep 2023 17:43 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

[$20K in Prizes] AI Safety Arguments Competition

Dan H, Kevin Liu, ozhang, TW123 and Sidney Hough

26 Apr 2022 16:13 UTC

75 points

518 comments3 min readLW link

$300 Fermi Model Competition

ozziegooen3 Feb 2025 19:47 UTC

16 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

The Dualist Predict-O-Matic ($100 prize)

John_Maxwell17 Oct 2019 6:45 UTC

19 points

35 comments5 min readLW link

Announcing the AI Alignment Prize

cousin_it3 Nov 2017 15:47 UTC

95 points

78 comments1 min readLW link

Manifold x CSPI $25k Forecasting Tournament

David Chee9 Aug 2022 21:13 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.cspicenter.com)

[Question] Understanding information cascades

Bird Concept and Ben Pace

13 Mar 2019 10:55 UTC

50 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

Spaced Repetition literature review prize: And the winner is...

jsalvatier19 Aug 2011 20:35 UTC

37 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

$500 bounty for engagement on asymmetric AI risk

YonatanK10 Jun 2025 21:50 UTC

21 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

AI Alignment Prize: Super-Boxing

X4vier18 Mar 2018 1:03 UTC

16 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

Inverse Scaling Prize: Second Round Winners

Ian McKenzie, Sam Bowman and Ethan Perez

24 Jan 2023 20:12 UTC

58 points

17 comments15 min readLW link

Join the $10K AutoHack 2024 Tournament

Paul Bricman25 Sep 2024 11:54 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(noemaresearch.com)

Prizes for matrix completion problems

paulfchristiano3 May 2023 23:30 UTC

164 points

52 comments1 min readLW link

(www.alignment.org)

EIS VII: A Challenge for Mechanists

scasper18 Feb 2023 18:27 UTC

36 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Apply to Usable Security Prize by September 30

Allison Duettmann29 Sep 2023 13:39 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Weird question: could we see distant aliens?

paulfchristiano20 Apr 2018 6:40 UTC

34 points

78 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] Get paid to train your rationality

XFrequentist3 Aug 2011 15:01 UTC

40 points

55 comments3 min readLW link

Asymptotically Unambitious AGI

michaelcohen10 Apr 2020 12:31 UTC

50 points

217 comments2 min readLW link

NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop 2022

Dan H26 Jul 2022 15:28 UTC

72 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(neurips2022.mlsafety.org)

Prizes for Last Year’s 2018 Review

Raemon2 Dec 2020 11:21 UTC

72 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis

Taymon Beal18 Jun 2020 1:48 UTC

14 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

What is up with carbon dioxide and cognition? An offer

paulfchristiano23 Apr 2016 17:47 UTC

84 points

48 comments2 min readLW link

$1000 USD prize—Circular Dependency of Counterfactuals

Chris_Leong1 Jan 2022 9:43 UTC

37 points

102 comments4 min readLW link

Prediction Contest 2018

jbeshir30 Apr 2018 18:26 UTC

9 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Calling for Student Submissions: AI Safety Distillation Contest

Aris24 Apr 2022 1:53 UTC

48 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Prize: Interesting Examples of Evaluations

Elizabeth and ozziegooen

28 Nov 2020 21:11 UTC

43 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are some good public contribution opportunities? (100$ bounty)

Gurkenglas18 Jun 2020 14:47 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

$100 for the best article on efficient charity—deadline Wednesday 1st December

Roko24 Nov 2010 22:31 UTC

17 points

57 comments2 min readLW link

Competition: Amplify Rohin’s Prediction on AGI researchers & Safety Concerns

stuhlmueller21 Jul 2020 20:06 UTC

83 points

41 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] Who are some prominent reasonable people who are confident that AI won’t kill everyone?

Optimization Process5 Dec 2022 9:12 UTC

72 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

$100 for the best article on efficient charty—the winner is …

Roko12 Dec 2010 15:02 UTC

28 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Why are there no interesting (1D, 2-state) quantum cellular automata?

Optimization Process26 Nov 2024 0:11 UTC

29 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How can I help inflammation-based nerve damage be temporary?

Optimization Process2 Feb 2023 19:20 UTC

17 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[prize] new contest for Spaced Repetition literature review ($365+)

jsalvatier18 Jun 2011 18:31 UTC

23 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Results of $1,000 Oracle contest!

Stuart_Armstrong17 Jun 2020 17:44 UTC

60 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] ($1000 bounty) How effective are marginal vaccine doses against the covid delta variant?

Bird Concept22 Jul 2021 1:26 UTC

105 points

73 comments2 min readLW link

Solving the AI Race Finalists

Gordon Seidoh Worley19 Jul 2018 21:04 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Book Review Review (end of the bounty program)

Ruby15 Oct 2021 3:23 UTC

85 points

21 comments2 min readLW link

[inactive] £2000 bounty—contraceptives (and UTI) literature review

Chi Nguyen15 Sep 2021 22:37 UTC

70 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Stupid Question: Why am I getting consistently downvoted?

MadHatter30 Nov 2023 0:21 UTC

31 points

138 comments1 min readLW link

Quantified Health Prize results announced

Zvi19 Feb 2012 8:10 UTC

68 points

65 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

jp2 Jun 2019 19:17 UTC

59 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Decent plan prize announcement (1 paragraph, $1k)

lemonhope12 Jan 2024 6:27 UTC

25 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

ML Model Attribution Challenge [Linkpost]

aog30 Aug 2022 19:34 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(mlmac.io)

EA Forum Creative Writing Contest: $10,000 in prizes for good stories

aarongertler12 Sep 2021 21:25 UTC

32 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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