The primary thing I expect him to do with this grant is to work together with John Salvatier on doing research on skill transfer between experts (which I am partially excited about because that’s the kind of thing that I see a lot of world-scale model building and associated grant-making being bottlenecked on).
However, as I mentioned in the review, if he finds that he can’t contribute to that as effectively as he thought, I want him to feel comfortable pursuing other research avenues. I don’t currently have a short-list of what those would be, but would probably just talk with him about what research directions I would be excited about, if he decides to not collaborate with John. One of the research projects he suggested was related to studying historical social movements and some broader issues around societal coordination mechanisms that seemed decent.
I primarily know about the work he has so far produced with John Salvatier, and also know that he demonstrated general competence in a variety of other projects, including making money managing a small independent hedge fund, running a research project for the Democracy Defense Fund, doing some research at Brown university, and participating in some forecasting tournaments and scoring well.
The primary thing I expect him to do with this grant is to work together with John Salvatier on doing research on skill transfer between experts (which I am partially excited about because that’s the kind of thing that I see a lot of world-scale model building and associated grant-making being bottlenecked on).
However, as I mentioned in the review, if he finds that he can’t contribute to that as effectively as he thought, I want him to feel comfortable pursuing other research avenues. I don’t currently have a short-list of what those would be, but would probably just talk with him about what research directions I would be excited about, if he decides to not collaborate with John. One of the research projects he suggested was related to studying historical social movements and some broader issues around societal coordination mechanisms that seemed decent.
I primarily know about the work he has so far produced with John Salvatier, and also know that he demonstrated general competence in a variety of other projects, including making money managing a small independent hedge fund, running a research project for the Democracy Defense Fund, doing some research at Brown university, and participating in some forecasting tournaments and scoring well.