Gaurav Yadav
Lead @ Bristol AI Safety Centre—bristolaisafety.org
Prev. @ CEA/EV.
Yadav
Karma: 732
How long till Brussels?: A light investigation into the Brussels Gap
Very Briefly: The CHIPS Act
I don’t think using “optics” as a reason to shift away from the Bay is great. Many of the critiques you seem to be gesturing at would still ham away at EA regardless (potentially because it’s an easy narrative to pick on or because it’s easy to associate the movement’s funding with Silicon Valley).
I also think using the association between EA and Oxford Uni seems counterintuitive to me; people seem to often associate Oxford with “elitism”.
(Linkpost) Alexander Berger is now the sole CEO of Open Philanthropy
OpenAI’s Superalignment team has opened Fast Grants
This is great. I’m glad stuff like the community health team exists.
I assume the actions you’ve taken can’t be shared? (No pressure if it can’t).
Thanks for writing this! Especially this part:
I strongly recommend you aim to decouple your self-worth from your productivity and impact — to internalise that you have intrinsic worth no matter how productive you are or how much impact you have.
I was lucky to have a therapist who was able to help me internalise this, and I think it has been incredibly valuable in helping me break some of my negative thought patterns and self-deprecating tendencies.
Well done on getting a post out on the forum about your experience Olivia!
Open questions on a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and its effects on the semiconductor stock
If companies like OpenAI and Deepmind have safety teams, it seems to me that they anticipate that speeding up AI capabilities can be very bad, so why don’t they press the brakes on their capabilities research until we come up with more solutions to alignment?
[Question] How does one find out their AGI timelines?
I think EA Grants is different from EA Funds. EA Grants was discontinued a while back—https://www.effectivealtruism.org/grants
(Report) Evaluating Taiwan’s Tactics to Safeguard its Semiconductor Assets Against a Chinese Invasion
Talk - ‘Caring for the Far Future’
How long will reaching a Risk Awareness Moment and CHARTS agreement take?
Thanks for linking this Matthew!
(Intro/1) - My Understandings of Mechanistic Interpretability Notebook
Hmm I disagree. I’m not a fan of making it a norm for someone to reply to me, feels icky and I don’t think anyone has responsibility to message me back unless we’ve scheduled something beforehand.
I empathise with the awkwardness of trying to reach out again but something like ‘Hey I tried reaching you at EAG: London, but didn’t get a response. No pressure but if you’d have time at this EAGx to have a chat I’d love to. Some things I’d like to get out of our conversation: X, Y, Z….’ could be reasonable way of dealing with this.
Curious about what this implies -
Does leadership at FTX change?
What does this mean for the FTX Foundation?
What does this mean for the FTX Future Fund?