@sophon I will think about that

@niplav go ahead. I will not elaborate further on this tho

@sophon Okay so my thought here is that alignment is elastic enough a problem that more money=better, academia doesn't understand the problem (think CIRL type solutions), EA does so much more, and that ⇒ more money is better & losing the money reduces prob of success a bunch

i think our crux here is elasticity

@niplav sorry for dumb question: what does CIRL stand for? I assume the IRL is “inverse reinforcement learning”?

@sophon cooperative inverse reinforcement learning

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2016/file/c3395dd46c34fa7fd8d729d8cf88b7a8-Paper.pdf

@niplav oh stuart russell’s thing

@niplav sorry, I do not pay much attention to outer alignment research

@sophon
They won't be able to make any more grants, apparently [1]

[1]: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xafpj3on76uRDoBja/the-ftx-future-fund-team-has-resigned-1

@niplav does this apply to the worldview competition thing too?

@sophon yeah quite likely

@niplav shit

@sophon sorry :-/

@niplav I mean obviously it’s not your fault…