I just want to note that the experience of being a resident blogger there was very fun, and it helped me crystallize a lot of ideas—plus his editing and writing advice was VERY helpful. It also led me to think about Goodhart’s law, discuss it extensively with Scott Garrabrant and Abram Dempski, and blog about it - and that led in various ways to my recent MIRI paper with Scott.
So if anyone is looking for a good way to express ideas that are adjacent to, but not exclusively for the rational blogosphere, and/or wants more editing and exposure for their blogging—and already has interesting ideas worth writing about under the broad umbrella of what he’d host—I would say it’s worth seeing if you can get into one of his writing workshops / blogpost generating projects—he encourages people to submit a pitch for a piece: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/pitches-and-prompts/
I just want to note that the experience of being a resident blogger there was very fun, and it helped me crystallize a lot of ideas—plus his editing and writing advice was VERY helpful. It also led me to think about Goodhart’s law, discuss it extensively with Scott Garrabrant and Abram Dempski, and blog about it - and that led in various ways to my recent MIRI paper with Scott.
My posts there: http://ribbonfarm.com/author/david/
So if anyone is looking for a good way to express ideas that are adjacent to, but not exclusively for the rational blogosphere, and/or wants more editing and exposure for their blogging—and already has interesting ideas worth writing about under the broad umbrella of what he’d host—I would say it’s worth seeing if you can get into one of his writing workshops / blogpost generating projects—he encourages people to submit a pitch for a piece: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/pitches-and-prompts/