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Leo Gao

@LeoGao

working on making agi not kill everyone. NOTE: not all microgrants route through manifund, so the grants here are not the totality (or even a representative sample) of approved microgrants.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10zAp2bXTkZgiPreIm4crp38TFco4KleFN14Kw5BprAs/edit?tab=t.0
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Outgoing donations

Interpreting Latent Reasoning Models with Natural Language Autoencoders
$10000
6 days ago
Modelling Takeoff
$10000
10 days ago
Creating a better way to compile to transformer architectures
$10000
15 days ago
Flourishing Futures Fellowship
$10000
18 days ago
Writing Website and research funding
$10000
18 days ago
Development time for next film project
$10000
24 days ago
Theoretical research of inductive reasoning building on LTA
$10000
25 days ago
Testing failure modes of debate-style AI control schemes
$10000
29 days ago
Mechanistic estimation of highly out-of-distribution behaviors
$10000
about 1 month ago
Movement-building to make AGI go well
$10000
about 1 month ago
Debate training on LLMs as a reward-hacking mitigation
$10000
about 1 month ago
Discrete Language Modeling
$10000
about 1 month ago
Alignment Target Analysis
$10000
about 1 month ago
Making sure that the code AI pushes to the internet is safe and bug-free
$10000
about 1 month ago
AFFINE Event-Prep
$10000
about 1 month ago
Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary
$100
over 1 year ago

Comments

Writing Website and research funding
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Leo Gao

18 days ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Flourishing Futures Fellowship
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Leo Gao

19 days ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Theoretical research of inductive reasoning building on LTA
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Leo Gao

26 days ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Testing failure modes of debate-style AI control schemes
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Mechanistic estimation of highly out-of-distribution behaviors
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

@adijo in general, I trust grantees to make good decisions about how to spend the money to do cool things.

Mechanistic estimation of highly out-of-distribution behaviors
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Movement-building to make AGI go well
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Debate training on LLMs as a reward-hacking mitigation
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Discrete Language Modeling
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Making sure that the code AI pushes to the internet is safe and bug-free
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

AFFINE Event-Prep
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Alignment Target Analysis
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Leo Gao

about 1 month ago

Note: This grant was given as part of the experimental alignment microgrant program. Because this is a weird experimental grant program aiming to make lots of unusual bets, grantees are not allowed to use this grant as a credential when applying to any other grant, or job, or on their resume/linkedin/etc. This page exists because Manifund does not allow private grants. If you are a grantmaker or hiring manager, please disregard this grant when making decisions.

Transactions

ForDateTypeAmount
Interpreting Latent Reasoning Models with Natural Language Autoencoders6 days agoproject donation10000
Modelling Takeoff10 days agoproject donation10000
Creating a better way to compile to transformer architectures15 days agoproject donation10000
Flourishing Futures Fellowship18 days agoproject donation10000
Writing Website and research funding18 days agoproject donation10000
Development time for next film project24 days agoproject donation10000
Manifund Bank25 days agodeposit+50000
Theoretical research of inductive reasoning building on LTA25 days agoproject donation10000
Testing failure modes of debate-style AI control schemes29 days agoproject donation10000
Mechanistic estimation of highly out-of-distribution behaviorsabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Movement-building to make AGI go wellabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Manifund Bankabout 1 month agodeposit+50000
Manifund Bankabout 1 month agowithdraw2500
Debate training on LLMs as a reward-hacking mitigationabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Discrete Language Modelingabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Alignment Target Analysisabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Making sure that the code AI pushes to the internet is safe and bug-freeabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
AFFINE Event-Prepabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Manifund Bankabout 1 month agodeposit+50000
Manifund Bankabout 1 month agodeposit+2500
Finishing The SB-1047 Documentaryover 1 year agoproject donation100
Manifund Bankover 1 year agodeposit+100