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My guide to lifelogging
eric13510

Also, Google Photo offers unlimited photo and video storage.

I think this will no longer be true soon.

"Important: Starting June 1, 2021, photos and videos backed up in High quality will start to count towards your Google Account storage."

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?visit_id=637571971979049227-1585044019&p=drive_photo_size&hl=en&rd=1#zippy=%2Chigh-quality%2Coriginal-quality%2Cexpress-backup

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Funding for AI alignment research
eric13510

This is great feedback! Thanks for taking the time to write it up.

One possible target audience is e.g. graduate students who are looking for research funding. One possible risk of engaging this audience people have talked about is that they might be more interested in optimizing their own career growth than actually solving x-risk-related problems. I'm not sure how worried to be about that.

Targeting graduate students is an excellent idea. I think the risk you mention is one worth considering. I've thought of two possible reasons why:

1) This proje... (read more)

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Funding for AI alignment research
eric13560

I noticed your comment and created this website that lists funding channels for AI alignment research. I am planning to create a new post on LW to share it after I receive some feedback.

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6John_Maxwell
Interesting idea! Some thoughts: You might want to think a bit more about who your target audience is. Given that applying for a job at MIRI/FHI/etc. is always another option, it's not totally clear to me to what extent "x risk funding" a natural category. One possible target audience is e.g. graduate students who are looking for research funding. One possible risk of engaging this audience people have talked about is that they might be more interested in optimizing their own career growth than actually solving x-risk-related problems. I'm not sure how worried to be about that. Another possible target audience is people who don't want to move to the Bay Area/Oxford/etc. Once you know who your target audience is, that makes marketing easier because you can market your site wherever that target audience hangs out. It might be that the most natural target audience is "people with math/CS expertise who are interested in working on the alignment problem", in which case you could expand your scope and also list things like open positions at MIRI, the AI safety reading group, lists of open problems, recent publications, etc.