when you say “rationalists” here do you mean robin hanson? LW seems to be doing pretty well
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(also I think you just meant “substitute for imagination”)
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Right now is different from a month ago. What I know of the X-risk community is that millions of dollars have been spent on pondering the risks of AGI.
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which is not much, in the grand scheme of things, and most of that went to relatively conventional efforts, like making ml models more explainable
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Did they actually do that? (My primary knowledge is MIRI, which I love intellectually—but they did logic things.) I don't know progress in interpretability from OpenAI—would love to learn more there, since it's a research interest of ours (we want to use the tools.)
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I think the biggest chunk of money was the donation by Elon. Some of that was used on xrisk, but most went into more conventional but underresearched domains.
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