List of AI safety projects I could work on
(November 2020)
- Write up my opinions
- writing some sort of overview of my beliefs regarding AI safety. like, if i was explaining things from scratch to someone, what would that sound like?
- my current take on AI timelines
- my current take on AI takeoff
- my current take on MIRI vs Paul
- Research projects
- continue working out AI takeoff disagreements
- continue working out MIRI vs Paul
- HRAD paper with David Manheim
- concrete plausible scenarios for what could happen when AGI comes around
- Writing articles for AI safety wiki
- Exposition
- Solomonoff induction guide (I think I've already figured out things here that are not explained anywhere, so I think I could write the best guide on it, but it's not clear how important this is for people to understand)
- pearl belief propagation guide
- Summarizing/distilling work that has been done in decision theory
- Ask lots of questions on LW
- Learning/research
- deep dive into human evolution to figure out what the heck it might tell us about AI takeoff/AI timelines