I recently founded Apollo Research: https://www.apolloresearch.ai/
I was previously doing a Ph.D. in ML at the International Max-Planck research school in Tübingen, worked part-time with Epoch and did independent AI safety research.
For more see https://www.mariushobbhahn.com/aboutme/
I subscribe to Crocker’s Rules
I understood the numbers to only contain farm fish and no wild fish.
Thanks for the fact about elephants, I didn’t know that. A better metric might then be the number of neurons in the cortex. But it would still contain a lot of uncertainty about which regions of the brain are actually causally responsible for suffering and so on.