I think Alignment Forum double-counts researchers as most of them are not independent, especially if you count MATS separately (which I think had about 6 mentors and 31 fellows this summer). Looking at the top posts this year:
Paul Christiano works at ARC. Yudkowsky works at MIRI. janus is from Conjecture, Kraknova is at DeepMind, I don’t know about nostalgebraist, Nanda is independent, Larsen works at MATS, Ajeya is at OpenPhil. So 4-5 of the top authors are double-counted.
I went through all the authors from the Alignment Forum from the past ~6 months, manually researched each person and came up with a new estimate named ‘Other’ of about 80 people which includes independent researchers, other people in academia and people in programs such as SERI MATS.
I think Alignment Forum double-counts researchers as most of them are not independent, especially if you count MATS separately (which I think had about 6 mentors and 31 fellows this summer). Looking at the top posts this year:
Paul Christiano works at ARC. Yudkowsky works at MIRI. janus is from Conjecture, Kraknova is at DeepMind, I don’t know about nostalgebraist, Nanda is independent, Larsen works at MATS, Ajeya is at OpenPhil. So 4-5 of the top authors are double-counted.
I went through all the authors from the Alignment Forum from the past ~6 months, manually researched each person and came up with a new estimate named ‘Other’ of about 80 people which includes independent researchers, other people in academia and people in programs such as SERI MATS.
nostalgebraist is taking a break from “ai discourse”