A quadratic funding mechanism (similar to Gitcoin) could make sense for putting up distillation bounties. Quadratic funding (QF) lets a grant-maker put up a pool of matching funds while individual researchers specify how much each individual bounty would be valuable to her/him; then the matching is done via the QF strategy to optimize for aggregate researcher utility. Speaking for myself, I would contribute to a community fund for further distillations, and I would also be more likely to distill.
I find the level of distillation done by Daniel Filan at AXRP to be great. Short and listenable enough for easy access while detailed enough to let you form opinions/directions for further research.
One way to define such a bounty would be to define them via alignment forum karma. You could publish a list of papers to be distilled and define how much you would pay for an alignment forum post with 10, 25, and 50 alignment forum karma on the topic.
A quadratic funding mechanism (similar to Gitcoin) could make sense for putting up distillation bounties. Quadratic funding (QF) lets a grant-maker put up a pool of matching funds while individual researchers specify how much each individual bounty would be valuable to her/him; then the matching is done via the QF strategy to optimize for aggregate researcher utility. Speaking for myself, I would contribute to a community fund for further distillations, and I would also be more likely to distill.
I find the level of distillation done by Daniel Filan at AXRP to be great. Short and listenable enough for easy access while detailed enough to let you form opinions/directions for further research.
Some IMO valuable targets for distillation: Infra-Bayesianism and recent work on why deep nets converge e.g. ‘Gradient Descent Finds Global Minima of Deep Neural Networks’, Learning and Generalization in Overparameterized Neural Networks, Going Beyond Two Layers, A Theoretical Analysis of Deep Q-Learning
One way to define such a bounty would be to define them via alignment forum karma. You could publish a list of papers to be distilled and define how much you would pay for an alignment forum post with 10, 25, and 50 alignment forum karma on the topic.