Ha, the same point on the EA Forum! (What is the origin of the idea?)
I think we probably want to go about it in a way that maximises credibility—i.e. it coming from a respected academic institution, even if the money is from elsewhere (CHAI, FHI, CSER, FLI, BERI, SERI could help with this). And also have it open to all Fields Medalists / all Nobel Prize winners in Physics / other equivalent in Computer Science, or Philosophy(?) or Economics(?) / anyone a panel of top people in AGI Safety would have on their dream team (who otherwise would be unlikely to work on the problem).
The idea has been joked about for awhile. I think it is probably worth trying in both the literally offer Tao 10 million and the generalized case of finding the highest g people in the world and offering them salaries that seem truly outrageous. Here and on EA forum, many claim genius people would not care about 10 million dollars. I think this is, to put it generously, not at all obvious. And certainly something we should establish empirically. Though Eliezer is a genius, I do not think he is literally the smartest person on the planet. To the extent we can identify the smartest people on the planet, we would be a really pathetic civilization were we were not willing to offer them NBA-level salaries to work on alignment.
Ha, the same point on the EA Forum! (What is the origin of the idea?)
I think we probably want to go about it in a way that maximises credibility—i.e. it coming from a respected academic institution, even if the money is from elsewhere (CHAI, FHI, CSER, FLI, BERI, SERI could help with this). And also have it open to all Fields Medalists / all Nobel Prize winners in Physics / other equivalent in Computer Science, or Philosophy(?) or Economics(?) / anyone a panel of top people in AGI Safety would have on their dream team (who otherwise would be unlikely to work on the problem).
The idea has been joked about for awhile. I think it is probably worth trying in both the literally offer Tao 10 million and the generalized case of finding the highest g people in the world and offering them salaries that seem truly outrageous. Here and on EA forum, many claim genius people would not care about 10 million dollars. I think this is, to put it generously, not at all obvious. And certainly something we should establish empirically. Though Eliezer is a genius, I do not think he is literally the smartest person on the planet. To the extent we can identify the smartest people on the planet, we would be a really pathetic civilization were we were not willing to offer them NBA-level salaries to work on alignment.