This is your regular reminder that, if I believe there is any hope whatsoever in your work for AGI alignment, I think I can make sure you get funded. It’s a high bar relative to the average work that gets proposed and pursued, and an impossible bar relative to proposals from various enthusiasts who haven’t understood technical basics or where I think the difficulty lies. But if I think there’s any shred of hope in your work, I am not okay with money being your blocking point. It’s not as if there are better things to do with money.
Eliezer gave some more color on this here:
https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159562959764228
There might be more discussion in the thread.