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This Scottish philosopher is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is credited with co-founding 80,000 Hours and the Centre for Effective Altruism.
Who is Will MacAskill?
This is a method of conveying information among agents by performing an action which is more likely or less costly if the information is true than if it is not true.
What is signalling?
Name three EA organizations.
What is (whatever the judges agree on)?
This is a company that specializes in artificial intelligence research and development. It was founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014. It is known for creating a machine learning system called AlphaGo, which was able to beat a world champion at the game of Go.
What is DeepMind?
This American entrepreneur co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg. He then left to found Asana and is a main funder of Open Philanthropy
Who is Dustin Moskovitz?
This law states that when a proxy for some value becomes the target of optimization pressure, the proxy will cease to be a good proxy.
What is Goodhart's law?
This is a state-of-the-art language processing AI system developed by OpenAI. It is one of the largest and most powerful language models ever created, with 175 billion parameters. It can generate human-like text, perform language translation, answer questions, and complete a wide range of other language-related tasks.
What is GPT-3?
This person is the co-founder and former executive director of GiveWell. He is now the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy and the author of the blog, Cold Takes.
Who is Holden Karnofsky?
This is when altruistically minded individuals make decisions without consulting each other, resulting in a sub-optimal outcome.
What is the Unilateralist's Curse?
This is the country with the highest number of EAs per capita in 2019.
What is New Zealand?
What is Asimov's three laws of robotics?
This Russian Lieutenant Colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the US which would have led to all-out nuclear war.
Who is Stanislav Petrov?
These are two kinds of perspectives that involve making predictions using details about a process and making prediction using estimates from a reference class, respectively.
What is the inside/outside view?
This newly independent organisation that currently manages Open Phil's criminal justice reform efforts.
What is Just Impact?
This idea was introduced by Nick Bostrom and states that, even if advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems have different goals and values, they may still approach certain means or strategies for achieving their goals.
What is the instrumental convergence thesis?
A Soviet virologist and Deputy Minister of Health for the Soviet Union, he called on the World Health Assembly to launch an initiative that was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox.
Who is Viktor Zhdanov?
This is a technique for resolving complex disagreements between two parties that involves both parties identifying a common belief that, if they changed their minds about, would change their stance on a contingent issue.
What is double-cruxing?
This is a community-building model adopted by CEA some years ago to think about how they could support the EA community. This model comprises a series of narrowing segments which are defined by the contributions a person makes to the movement’s goals.
What is the funnel model?
This is a type of neural network architecture that is used for natural language processing tasks. It is based on the idea of self-attention, which allows the model to automatically learn relationships between words in a sentence or document, without the need for hand-crafted features.
What is transformer architecture?