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Thomas Larsen

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I’m researching and advocating for policy to prevent catastrophic risk from AI at https://​​www.aipolicy.us/​​.

I’m broadly interested in AI strategy and want to figure out the most effective interventions to get to good AI outcomes.

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund Ask Us Any­thing (Septem­ber 2023)

31 Aug 2023 0:28 UTC
33 points
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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

In­tro­duc­ing the Cen­ter for AI Policy (& we’re hiring!)

Thomas Larsen28 Aug 2023 21:17 UTC
119 points
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(www.aipolicy.us)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

2 Aug 2023 7:54 UTC
81 points
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Challenge: con­struct a Gra­di­ent Hacker

9 Mar 2023 2:38 UTC
38 points
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Went­worth and Larsen on buy­ing time

9 Jan 2023 21:31 UTC
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Ways to buy time

12 Nov 2022 19:31 UTC
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Thomas Larsen’s Shortform

Thomas Larsen8 Nov 2022 23:34 UTC
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In­stead of tech­ni­cal re­search, more peo­ple should fo­cus on buy­ing time

5 Nov 2022 20:43 UTC
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Pos­si­ble miracles

9 Oct 2022 18:17 UTC
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Neu­ral Tan­gent Ker­nel Distillation

5 Oct 2022 18:11 UTC
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7 traps that (we think) new al­ign­ment re­searchers of­ten fall into

27 Sep 2022 23:13 UTC
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Align­ment Org Cheat Sheet

20 Sep 2022 17:36 UTC
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In­ner Align­ment via Superpowers

30 Aug 2022 20:01 UTC
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(My un­der­stand­ing of) What Every­one in Tech­ni­cal Align­ment is Do­ing and Why

29 Aug 2022 1:23 UTC
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Find­ing Goals in the World Model

22 Aug 2022 18:06 UTC
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The Core of the Align­ment Prob­lem is...

17 Aug 2022 20:07 UTC
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Pro­ject pro­posal: Test­ing the IBP defi­ni­tion of agent

9 Aug 2022 1:09 UTC
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Broad Bas­ins and Data Compression

8 Aug 2022 20:33 UTC
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In­tu­itive Ex­pla­na­tion of AIXI

Thomas Larsen12 Jun 2022 21:41 UTC
21 points
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In­fra-Bayesi­anism Distil­la­tion: Real­iz­abil­ity and De­ci­sion Theory

Thomas Larsen26 May 2022 21:57 UTC
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