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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
26 days ago
Modelling Takeoff
$10000
about 1 month ago
Creating a better way to compile to transformer architectures
$10000
about 1 month ago
Flourishing Futures Fellowship
$10000
about 1 month ago
Writing Website and research funding
$10000
about 1 month ago
Development time for next film project
$10000
about 1 month ago
Theoretical research of inductive reasoning building on LTA
$10000
about 2 months ago
Testing failure modes of debate-style AI control schemes
$10000
about 2 months ago
Mechanistic estimation of highly out-of-distribution behaviors
$10000
about 2 months ago
Movement-building to make AGI go well
$10000
about 2 months ago
Debate training on LLMs as a reward-hacking mitigation
$10000
about 2 months ago
Discrete Language Modeling
$10000
about 2 months ago
Alignment Target Analysis
$10000
about 2 months ago
Making sure that the code AI pushes to the internet is safe and bug-free
$10000
about 2 months ago
AFFINE Event-Prep
$10000
2 months ago
Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary
$100
almost 2 years ago

Comments

Writing Website and research funding
LeoGao avatar

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.

Flourishing Futures Fellowship
LeoGao avatar

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.

Theoretical research of inductive reasoning building on LTA
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Leo Gao

about 2 months 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
LeoGao avatar

Leo Gao

about 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 Autoencoders26 days agoproject donation10000
Modelling Takeoffabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Creating a better way to compile to transformer architecturesabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Flourishing Futures Fellowshipabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Writing Website and research fundingabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Development time for next film projectabout 1 month agoproject donation10000
Manifund Bankabout 2 months agodeposit+50000
Theoretical research of inductive reasoning building on LTAabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
Testing failure modes of debate-style AI control schemesabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
Mechanistic estimation of highly out-of-distribution behaviorsabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
Movement-building to make AGI go wellabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
Manifund Bankabout 2 months agodeposit+50000
Manifund Bankabout 2 months agowithdraw2500
Debate training on LLMs as a reward-hacking mitigationabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
Discrete Language Modelingabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
Alignment Target Analysisabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
Making sure that the code AI pushes to the internet is safe and bug-freeabout 2 months agoproject donation10000
AFFINE Event-Prep2 months agoproject donation10000
Manifund Bank2 months agodeposit+50000
Manifund Bank2 months agodeposit+2500
Finishing The SB-1047 Documentaryalmost 2 years agoproject donation100
Manifund Bankalmost 2 years agodeposit+100