Me and the other people working on Lightcone + LW are pretty interested in working in this space (and LW + the AI Alignment Forum puts us IMO in a great positions to get ongoing feedback on users for our work in the space, and we’ve also collaborated a good amount with Manifold historically). However, we currently don’t have funding for it, which is our biggest bottleneck for working on this.
AI engineering tends to be particularly expensive in terms of talent and capital expenditures. If anyone knows of funders interested in this kind of stuff, who might be interested in funding us for this kind of work, letting me know would be greatly appreciated.
The bottleneck on funding is the biggest issue in unlocking the potential in this space imo, and on trying to improve decision making more broadly.
I find the void between the importance placed on improving reasoning and decision making on cause priority researchers such as 80k and the EA community as a whole, and the appetite from funders to invest is quite huge. A colleague and I have struggled for even relatively small amounts of funding, even when having existing users/clients from which funding would allow us to scale from.
That’s not a complaint—funders are free to determine what they want to fund. But it seems a consistent challenge people who want to improve IIDM face.
It increases my view that such endeavours, though incredibly important, should be focused on earning a profit as the ability to scale as a non-profit will be limited.
Me and the other people working on Lightcone + LW are pretty interested in working in this space (and LW + the AI Alignment Forum puts us IMO in a great positions to get ongoing feedback on users for our work in the space, and we’ve also collaborated a good amount with Manifold historically). However, we currently don’t have funding for it, which is our biggest bottleneck for working on this.
AI engineering tends to be particularly expensive in terms of talent and capital expenditures. If anyone knows of funders interested in this kind of stuff, who might be interested in funding us for this kind of work, letting me know would be greatly appreciated.
The bottleneck on funding is the biggest issue in unlocking the potential in this space imo, and on trying to improve decision making more broadly.
I find the void between the importance placed on improving reasoning and decision making on cause priority researchers such as 80k and the EA community as a whole, and the appetite from funders to invest is quite huge. A colleague and I have struggled for even relatively small amounts of funding, even when having existing users/clients from which funding would allow us to scale from.
That’s not a complaint—funders are free to determine what they want to fund. But it seems a consistent challenge people who want to improve IIDM face.
It increases my view that such endeavours, though incredibly important, should be focused on earning a profit as the ability to scale as a non-profit will be limited.