startups x alignment - by Emily Yu - timeless

observations from the last month

i spent my winter on the yc iap program, which was a mini version of the batch long yc accelerator. i’ve also recently gotten a lot more involved with mit’s ai alignment club, and i just came back from the organizer retreat. i couldn’t help but notice how similar the principles behind both groups of people are: those who found ai startups and those who work in ai alignment are fundamentally similar and differ only in motivation. i believe these characteristics will make them among the last to be replaced by ai. 1 moving fast both groups move on extremely fast timelines. founders race…

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related reading

• ALIGNMENT - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindmindslice.substack.com
• Sequent: Scale and Automation for Higher Confidence in Alignment — Sequentsequent.org
• Alignment remains a hard, unsolved problem — LessWronglesswrong.com
• AI safety undervalues founders — LessWronglesswrong.com
• I Would Have Solved Alignment, But I Was Worried That Would Advance Timelines — LessWronglesswrong.com
• ALIGNMENT - by vincent huang - a slice of my mindmindslice.substack.com
• The Artificiality of Alignmentjoinreboot.org
• Aditya Agarwal on X: "The Fast Lane to Mediocrity" / Xx.com
• AGI safety career advice — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• A guide to the AI tribes - by Michel Justen - What is thismicheljusten.substack.com
• Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centersalignmentalignment.ai
• The Field of AI Alignment: A Postmortem, and What To Do About It — LessWronglesswrong.com