Ryan Kidd

I still have other overlap.

That project came out of,

a maths alum, I'll just say Mark Carlino, I might have messed up his name, was like the originator of that project at AU Studios, and I believe Cameron Berg is running another maths 1.0 alum with me, is running some of their more neuroscience-inspired approaches as well.

So, Ace Studios is great.

I love what they're doing.

I think that the survey they did of Westrong is just like probably not representative of the AI safety research field as on the whole, but it might be.

Even so, I think we obviously need more ideas because more ideas are good, right?

More bets are good.

More shots on goal are good.

Now, I would not advocate...

a person who is like a very strong iterator to drop that and try and become, think of some new paradigm.

I think that would be strictly counterproductive on the margin because I think we do have some very strong central research bets that we need more people pursuing because they will yield demonstrable results.

But if everyone did that, this would be bad because you need to have your portfolio.

Maybe these approaches fail.

Maybe they need other pieces to work.

Many AI safety research agendas are kind of contingent on other things going right or other people working on other stuff.

It's like any kind of research field.

You need to have everyone advancing the frontier.

So I think AI safety has historically gone really kind of arg maxi on different agendas, which is bad.

portfolio approach is much better.