2018 | Sept-Dec | - Led Convergence operations. Hired law firm to help forming the Convergence non-profit |
- Incorporated Convergence | ||
- Applied for 501c3 non-profit status for Convergence [non-profit status approved in 2019] | ||
- Onboarded new person for operations work | ||
- Developed a new systematization of Goodhart's Law | ||
2019 | Jan-Mar | - Led Convergence operations. Created various internal documents for the organization. |
- Built a new web site from scratch, changed hosting and moved domains | ||
- Designed Convergence presentation and held it at the Future of Humanity Institute | ||
- Did some research on scaling safe insights, meta-strategy, and strategy experiments | ||
Jul-Sep | - Defined recruitment plan for researcher-writer role and publicized job ad | |
- Initial work on an existential risk strategy research agenda | ||
- Wrote article draft on the field of existential risk reduction | ||
Oct-Dec | - Broadcasted job ad for researcher-writer and examined job applications | |
- Arranged an internship at Convergence in 2020 | ||
- Submitted final project report to BERI, applied to grant round from SFF | ||
- Ran and attended AI Strategy and X-risk unconference (AIXSU) | ||
- Assisted an AGI company in recruiting for their ethics board, and analyzed their ethics design | ||
- Analyzed x-risk for-profit investment | ||
- Rewrote article draft on the field of existential risk reduction, 5700 words, then shared it with select people and presented it at the EA hotel | ||
2020 | Jan-Mar | - Published The ‘far future’ is not just the far future (29) |
- Published State Space of X-Risk Trajectories (23) | ||
- Collaborated on seven other Convergence publications we released in the period | ||
Apr-Jun | - Collaborated on five new Convergence publications we released in the period | |
Jul | - Wrote up rough outlines for 6 new articles on existential risk reduction - Released Convergence one pager - Refined the contract for a research group that Convergence is acting as fiscal sponsor of - Performed Convergence planning - Collaborated on two new Convergence publication we released in the period | |