We have contact details and can send emails to 1500 students and former students who've received hard-cover copies of HPMOR (and possibly Human Compatible and/or The Precipice) because they've won international or Russian olympiads in maths, computer science, physics, biology, or chemistry.

This includes over 60 IMO and IOI medalists.

This is a pool of potentially extremely talented people, many of whom have read HPMOR.

I don't have the time to do anything with them, and people in the Russian-speaking EA community are all busy with other things.

The only thing that ever happened was an email sent to some kids still in high school about the Atlas Fellowship, and a couple of them became fellows.

I think it could be very valuable to alignment-pill these people. I think for most researchers who understand AI x-risk well enough and can speak Russian, even manually going through IMO and IOI [...]

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First published:
January 12th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/onyiPaxnmiDdHn7SR/no-one-has-the-ball-on-1500-russian-olympiad-winners-who-ve

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“No one has the ball on 1500 Russian olympiad winners who’ve received HPMOR” by Mikhail Samin

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