What are you looking for in a research / operations colleague?
Caro
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Hi Tobby! Thanks for being such a great source of inspiration for philosophy and EA. You’re a great model to me!
Some questions, feel free to pick:
1) What philosophers are your sources of inspiration and why?
(put my other questions in separate comments). Also, writing “Toby”!
[Link] Stuart Russell will have an AMA on Reddit on 12/16
Happily, they are already available:
Publication of Stuart Russell’s new book on AI safety—reviews needed
Hi guys, I wanted to make you aware of a global online debate on the governance of AI by a Harvard-incubated think-tank.
For background, I’m a French EA, and I recently decided to work on AI policy as it is a pressing and neglected issue. I’ve been working for The Future Society for a few weeks already and would like to share with you this opportunity to impact policy-making. The Future Society at Harvard Kennedy School is a think tank dedicated to the governance of emerging advanced technologies. It has partnerships with the Future of Life Institute and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
The think-tank provides an participatory debate platform to people all around the world The objective is to craft actionable and ethical policies that will be delivered in a White Paper, to the White House, the OECD, the European Union and other policymaking institutions that the think-tank is working with.
Because we know AI policy is hard, the idea is to use collective intelligence to provide innovative and reasonable policies. The debate is hosted on an open source collective intelligence software resulting from a research project funded by the European Commission, technologically supported by MIT. It’s based on research on collective intelligence, going from open and exploratory questions to more in-depth discussions. Right now, we are in the “Ideation” phase, which is very open. You can make constructive answers and debate with other people who are also interested in crafting AI Policies with instant translation.
The platform is like an online forum articulated around several issues, both short-term and long-term oriented. You have six themes, including “AI Safety and Security”, “Reinvent Man & Machine Relationship” and “Governance Framework”.
So far, most of the answers have been very constructive. But with you guys… it can be even better.
Because you are EAs, I really wanted to pick your brains!
It would be great if you guys could participate, on the topic you’re most interested in, knowing that a) it will be impactful b) you will be able to challenge your thoughts with other people passionate about AI social impacts. Of course, you don’t have to talk about AI safety if you’d rather focus on other topics.
Also, the more EAs, the merrier. Or rather, the more impactful!
So please connect on the debate, and participate!!
If you’ve read the book ‘So good they can’t ignore you’, what do you think are the most important skills to master to be a writer/philosopher like yourself?