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We (Connor Leahy, Gabriel Alfour, Chris Scammell, Andrea Miotti, Adam Shimi) have just published The Compendium, which brings together in a single place the most important arguments that drive our models of the AGI race, and what we need to do to avoid catastrophe. We felt that something like this...
> You have one job: Solving problems. You have multiple tools. Maybe you use code as a tool to solve some problems. Maybe you use design for others. Maybe you use good communication and negotiation skills. Mike Acton, How much time should I spend coding versus managing? > If you...
This post is part of the work done at Conjecture. Epistemic Status: Palimpsest Better epistemology should make you stronger. Which is why at Conjecture's' epistemology team we are so adamant on improving our models of knowledge-production: this feels like the key to improving alignment research across the board, given the...
Yesterday was the third blog post day at Refine (technically it was announced on Monday for Friday, but people leveraged the week differently so it's in between a week and a day). In the current phase of the incubator we're mostly pushing them to generate and iterate on ideas, with...
Yesterday was the second blog post day at Refine. It came after the first week of research and iteration on incubatees ideas and questions. It still went well. There are less posts than the first day, but even the incubatees that didn't write a post ended up working on interesting...
This post is part of the work done at Conjecture. This post has been written for the second Refine blog post day, at the end of the first week of iterating on ideas and concretely aiming at the alignment problem. What constantly frustrates me about the old school philosophers of...
Yesterday was the first blog post day at Refine. It came after a week of readings, discussions and exercises about epistemology (more concretely shapes of mind, productive mistakes, epistemological vigilance, and mosaics and palimpsests). I'm excited about how the incubator is going, and about each of these posts. Here is...