Many thanks to Samuel Hammond, Cate Hall, Beren Millidge, Steve Byrnes, Lucius Bushnaq, Joar Skalse, Kyle Gracey, Gunnar Zarncke, Ross Nordby, David Lambert, Simeon Campos, Bogdan Ionut-Cirstea, Ryan Kidd, Eric Ho, and Ashwin Acharya for critical comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this agenda, as well as Philip Gubbins, Diogo de Lucena, Rob Luke, and Mason Seale from AE Studio for their support and feedback throughout.

TL;DR

Our initial theory of change at AE Studio was a 'neglected approach' that involved rerouting profits from our consulting business towards the development of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to dramatically enhance human agency, better enabling us to do things like solve alignment. Now, given shortening timelines, we're updating our theory of change to scale up our technical alignment efforts.
With a solid technical foundation in BCI, neuroscience, and machine learning, we are optimistic that we’ll be able to contribute meaningfully [...]

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Outline:

(00:36) TL;DR

(01:39) About us

(03:01) Why and how we think we can help solve alignment

(03:06) We can probably do with alignment what we already did with BCI

(05:14) Many shots on goal with neglected approaches

(06:17) …but what are these neglected approaches?

(06:21) Your neglected approach ideas

(06:54) Our neglected approach ideas

(21:54) We want to make these ideas stronger

(23:06) Concluding thoughts

The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
December 18th, 2023

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qAdDzcBuDBLexb4fC/the-neglected-approaches-approach-ae-studio-s-alignment

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“The ‘Neglected Approaches’ Approach: AE Studio’s Alignment Agenda” by Cameron Berg, Judd Rosenblatt, AE Studio, Marc Carauleanu

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