In this comment we list the names of some of our advisors.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
About how often do you use LLMs like ChatGPT while active?
What does “while active” mean in this question?
If one wants to investigate [the Alignment of Complex Systems research group] further, he has an AXRP podcast episode, which I haven’t listened to.
Note that if you want to investigate further but would rather read a transcript than watch a video, AXRP has you covered.
Yeah but a bunch of people might actually answer how their neigbours will vote, given that that’s what the pollster asked—and if the question is phrased as the post assumes, that’s going to be a massive issue.
So I guess 1.5% of Americans have worse judgment than I expected (by my lights, as someone who thinks that Trump is really bad). Those 1.5% were incredibly important for the outcome of the election and for the future of the country, but they are only 1.5% of the population.
Nitpick: they are 1.5% of the voting population, making them around 0.7% of the US population.
If you ask people who they’re voting for, 50% will say they’re voting for Harris. But if you ask them who most of their neighbors are voting for, only 25% will say Harris and 75% will say Trump!
Note this issue could be fixed if you instead ask people who the neighbour immediately to the right of their house/apartment will vote for, which I think is compatible with what we know about this poll. That said, the critique of “do people actually know” stands.
she should have picked Josh Shapiro as her running mate
Note that this news story makes allegations that, if true, make it sound like the decision was partly Shapiro’s:
Following Harris’s interview with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, there was a sense among Shapiro’s team that the meeting did not go as well as it could have, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Later Sunday, after the interview, Shapiro placed a phone call to Harris’ team, indicating he had reservations about leaving his job as governor, sources said.
Oh except: I did not necessarily mean to claim that any of the things I mentioned were missing from the alignment research scene, or that they were present.
In this comment we list the names of some of our advisors.