Submission: a chapter of Joao Fabiano’s doctoral thesis discussing some consequences of moral enhancement and the complexity of value. Old versions of some of these arguments apper in this blog post, but the thesis itself is not yet public.
I think this case was probably my biggest disagreement with Paul; I thought this project had quite high value. As it happened I didn’t end up purchasing any, presumably because the gap between
My evaluation of the HPMOR wrap parties
The seller’s evaluation of the HPMOR wrap parties
was larger than the gap between
My evaluation of the thesis
The seller’s evaluation of the thesis
but I would like to signal that I am willing in general to bid non-trivial amounts for academic work on X-risk and value drift.
The technique I used to value it was to estimate how long it would take MIRI to produce such a piece, how valuable it was compared to MIRI’s typical output, and how much it costs MIRI to hire researchers.
The fact it was a doctoral thesis did cause me to assign a significant discount to my valuation. I’m not really sure how to think about this.
This was another project that was very hard to evaluate. Overall, we were sufficiently uncertain and skeptical about the content of the chapter that we thought it was very unlikely that we would have a higher (honest) valuation than the author, and we didn’t make a more detailed evaluation.
Submission: a chapter of Joao Fabiano’s doctoral thesis discussing some consequences of moral enhancement and the complexity of value. Old versions of some of these arguments apper in this blog post, but the thesis itself is not yet public.
I think this case was probably my biggest disagreement with Paul; I thought this project had quite high value. As it happened I didn’t end up purchasing any, presumably because the gap between
My evaluation of the HPMOR wrap parties
The seller’s evaluation of the HPMOR wrap parties
was larger than the gap between
My evaluation of the thesis
The seller’s evaluation of the thesis
but I would like to signal that I am willing in general to bid non-trivial amounts for academic work on X-risk and value drift.
The technique I used to value it was to estimate how long it would take MIRI to produce such a piece, how valuable it was compared to MIRI’s typical output, and how much it costs MIRI to hire researchers.
The fact it was a doctoral thesis did cause me to assign a significant discount to my valuation. I’m not really sure how to think about this.
This was another project that was very hard to evaluate. Overall, we were sufficiently uncertain and skeptical about the content of the chapter that we thought it was very unlikely that we would have a higher (honest) valuation than the author, and we didn’t make a more detailed evaluation.