you might already be planning on dong this, but it seems like you increase the chance of getting a winning entry if you advertise this competition in a lot of non-EA spaces. I guess especially technical AI spaces e.g. labs, universities. Maybe also trying to advertise outside the US/UK. Given the size of the prize it might be easy to get people to pass on the advertisement among their groups. (Maybe there’s a worry about getting flack somehow for this, though. And also increases overhead to need to read more entries, though sounds like you have some systems set up for that which is great.)
In the same vein I think trying to lower the barriers to entry having to do with EA culture could be useful—e.g. +1 to someone else here talking about allowing posting places besides EAF/LW/AF, but also maybe trying to have some consulting researchers/judges who find it easier/more natural to engage in non-analytic-philosophy-style arguments.
you might already be planning on dong this, but it seems like you increase the chance of getting a winning entry if you advertise this competition in a lot of non-EA spaces. I guess especially technical AI spaces e.g. labs, universities. Maybe also trying to advertise outside the US/UK. Given the size of the prize it might be easy to get people to pass on the advertisement among their groups. (Maybe there’s a worry about getting flack somehow for this, though. And also increases overhead to need to read more entries, though sounds like you have some systems set up for that which is great.)
In the same vein I think trying to lower the barriers to entry having to do with EA culture could be useful—e.g. +1 to someone else here talking about allowing posting places besides EAF/LW/AF, but also maybe trying to have some consulting researchers/judges who find it easier/more natural to engage in non-analytic-philosophy-style arguments.