It was quite strange to see it downvoted, and I’m not sure what the issue was. My guess is that the initial username might have played a role, especially since this is my first post on LessWrong, it might have caused some concern maybe?
As for the credibility, you can see that this fellowship has been shared by individuals from the organizations themselves on Twitter, as seen here, here and here.
If you’d like, I’m happy to discuss this further on the call to help alleviate any concerns you may have.
(Of those, maybe Far.AI would be deserving of that title, but also, I feel like there is something bad about trying to award that title in the first place).
There also is no disambiguation of whether this program is focused on existential risk efforts or near-term bias/filter-bubble/censorship/etc. AI efforts, the latter of which I think is usually bad for the world, but at least a lot less valuable.
Just commenting to say that this is convincing enough (and the application sufficiently low-effort) for me to apply later this month, conditional on being in a position where I could theoretically accept such an offer.
Hi,
It was quite strange to see it downvoted, and I’m not sure what the issue was. My guess is that the initial username might have played a role, especially since this is my first post on LessWrong, it might have caused some concern maybe?
As for the credibility, you can see that this fellowship has been shared by individuals from the organizations themselves on Twitter, as seen here, here and here.
If you’d like, I’m happy to discuss this further on the call to help alleviate any concerns you may have.
The post feels very salesy to me, was written by an org account, and also made statements that seemed false to me like:
(Of those, maybe Far.AI would be deserving of that title, but also, I feel like there is something bad about trying to award that title in the first place).
There also is no disambiguation of whether this program is focused on existential risk efforts or near-term bias/filter-bubble/censorship/etc. AI efforts, the latter of which I think is usually bad for the world, but at least a lot less valuable.
Just commenting to say that this is convincing enough (and the application sufficiently low-effort) for me to apply later this month, conditional on being in a position where I could theoretically accept such an offer.