Eliezer has huge respect in the community; he has strong, well thought-out opinions (often negative) on a lot of the safety research being done (with exceptions, Chris Olah mentioned a few times); but he’s not able to work full time on research directly (or so I understand, could be way off).
Perhaps he should institute some kind of prize for work done, trying to give extra prestige and funding to work going in his preferred direction? Does this exist in some form without my noticing? Is there a reason it’d be bad? Time/energy usage for Eliezer combined with difficulty of delegation?
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Eliezer has huge respect in the community; he has strong, well thought-out opinions (often negative) on a lot of the safety research being done (with exceptions, Chris Olah mentioned a few times); but he’s not able to work full time on research directly (or so I understand, could be way off).
Perhaps he should institute some kind of prize for work done, trying to give extra prestige and funding to work going in his preferred direction? Does this exist in some form without my noticing? Is there a reason it’d be bad? Time/energy usage for Eliezer combined with difficulty of delegation?