In this comment we list the names of some of our advisors.
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AXRP Episode 38.8 - David Duvenaud on Sabotage Evaluations and the Post-AGI Future
AXRP Episode 38.7 - Anthony Aguirre on the Future of Life Institute
Below is a list of some of the advisors we used for mentor selection. Notes:
Two advisors asked not to be named and do not appear here.
Advisors by and large focussed their efforts on areas they had some expertise in.
Advisors had to flag conflicts of interest, meaning that (for example) we did not take their ratings of themselves into account.
With that out of the way, here are some advisors who helped us for the Winter 2024-25 cohort:
Adam Gleave
Alex Lawsen
Buck Shlegeris
Ethan Perez
Lawrence Chan
Lee Sharkey
Lewis Hammond
Marius Hobbhahn
Michael Aird
Neel Nanda
The above people also advised us for the Summer 2025 cohort. We also added the below advisors for that cohort:
Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
Ben Garfinkel
Caspar Oesterheld
Jesse Clifton
Nate Thomas
OK, my current evidence is that Jessica Taylor says on Twitter that she knew Ophelia, Ophelia was a Ziz fan, and Ophelia told Jessica that Ophelia was in contact with Somni and Emma prior to the landlord incident.
AXRP Episode 38.6 - Joel Lehman on Positive Visions of AI
FWIW I feel like Ophelia’s Zizian credentials haven’t been that well-established.
Clicking on the word “Here” in the post works.
The link to the website is still broken.
AXRP Episode 38.5 - Adrià Garriga-Alonso on Detecting AI Scheming
Looking back on this thread, I’m so confused why this comment was highly upvoted. Isn’t it kind of obvious that it’s reasonable to focus on Eliezer / MIRI because they are super influential (or at least were, with their influence continuing to wane over time)? I think this holds even if there are other problems with shard theory one could address, and even if TurnTrout’s complaints about Eliezer/MIRI don’t hold water.
MATS mentor selection
AXRP Episode 38.4 - Shakeel Hashim on AI Journalism
AXRP Episode 38.3 - Erik Jenner on Learned Look-Ahead
Would being in a room with people who are vaping have the same benefits as the fog machine? Obviously it has downsides of smell and other additives, but still—I think this should predict that people maybe don’t get airborne illnesses at vaping conventions.
Typo:
We sequencing a typical sample to between one and two billion reads.
Should maybe be “We will be sequencing...”?
Wait I’m a moron and the thing I checked was actually whether it was an exponential function, sorry.
Votes cost quadratic points – a vote strength of “1” costs 1 point. A vote of strength 4 costs 10 points. A vote of strength 9 costs 45.
FYI this is not a quadratic function.
Dojo Organizations What organizations are you aware of that are providing some kind of rationality dojo format (courses focused on improving the skill of rationality)?
Seems like the stuff after “Dojo Organizations” should be on a new line.
In this comment we list the names of some of our advisors.