Moving to Substack
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My ARIA Application
Below is a part of my application for ARIA s program director role. Though I was not selected, I hope that it may give other program directors some food-for-thought. If you could direct £50m to drive a bold and focused scientific/technical step-change in human progress, what would you do? 1. Pilot demonstration generating carbon-neutral fuel from Continue reading "My ARIA Application"
Links #38
The world’s peak population may be smaller than expected Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating You Don t Always Have to be Rational Pattern Collider The Coming Supremacy of AR EDIT: a nice thread on companies working to automate IVF. Venus Aerospace is working on a Mach 9 passenger plane based on rotating detonation engines. This Continue reading "Links #38"
Links #37
Alternative Approaches to Monetary Policy Why Subagents? LLM Modularity: The Separability of Capabilities in Large Language Models Role Architectures: Applying LLMs to consequential tasks CAIS-inspired approach towards safer and more interpretable AGIs A Proposed Approach for AI Safety Movement Building I ve been enjoying the Model Thinking blog. Supercharging Innovation. A nice intro to patent…
Links #36
Gwern s Project Ideas Trellis is a ChatGPT-powered custom tutor and textbook companion Here’s What It Would Take To Slow or Stop AI Perfectly Secure Steganography Using Minimum Entropy Coupling Palm cooling is neat. A similar system might be used to better adapt people to hot and cold climates. Scientists create mice with two fathers after Continue reading "Links #36"
Links #35
How I learned to write a lot Attestation by Sarah Constantin has lots of food for thought about speech, cryptographic signatures, language models, and more. I wrote some comments here. Chapman s Better without AI Metauni is a research seminar held in the metaverse. Cool! Liz Stein has a nice review on hypersonic flight Yellowstone Caldera Continue reading "Links #35"
Other points about RPGF
Here, I wanted to address some points I didn t get to in my last post about retroactive funding Verification Retroactive funding has to verify that charities aren t scams just like traditional funding does. It might be easier if you can look at past impacts and work done, but it doesn t entirely remove the need to Continue reading "Other points about RPGF"
Other Interesting Research Areas
As a follow-up to my previous post on underrated research areas, here is a list of other ideas I find interesting: Hash-functions Based on NP Problems: It would be nice to have a hash function known to be secure. It might be straightforward to do reverse 3-SAT problems where one constructs a 3-SAT problem from Continue reading "Other Interesting Research Areas"
Links #34
Experiment is a crowdfunding platform for research The Collective Intelligence Project Notes on Managing to Change the World . Good general management advice. Incentive Pay for Congress Thread on proposal to expand Manhattan and a list of unbuilt structures. Logic Through the Lens of Neural Networks Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers Black holes as tools for Continue reading "Links #34"
Addressing the Risks of Retroactive Funding
Summary: Retroactive funding has some advantages over traditional funding, but can potentially lead to bad behaviors such as supporting net-negative projects. I list some straightforward steps that can be taken to mitigate these risks. With these precautions in place, Retro funding seems like a valuable way to support altruistic endeavors. Thanks to Dony Christie and Continue reading "Addressing…