Astral Codex Ten

Chris Olah

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Chris Olah

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Chris Olah is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between May 20, 2021 and November 28, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “most of OpenAI’s top alignment researchers, including … Chris Olah”; “Micromarriages come from this post by Chris Olah”; “four members of the interpretability team, including team lead Chris Olah”. It most often appears alongside Dario Amodei, Ethiopia, OpenAI.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 3
  • Issue count: 3
  • First seen: May 20, 2021
  • Last seen: November 28, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

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May 20, 2021 · Original source
35: Recent news in local AI alignment research space: most of OpenAI’s top alignment researchers, including Dario Amodei, Chris Olah, Jack Clark, and Paul Christano, left en masse for poorly-understood reasons (see speculation here). Dario Amodei is now working with a new nonprofit called Cooperative AI Foundation. Paul Christiano will be founding his own nonprofit, the Alignment Research Center (conflict of interest notice: I know Paul and think he is generally great); see also his ask-me-anything thread on Less Wrong here. Unrelatedly, local secretive AI alignment research group MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) is leaving the Bay Area for some small town with affordable land prices where they can maybe build a campus (they’re still trying to decide exactly where).
Inline links: left en masse for poorly-understood reasons, here, Cooperative AI Foundation, Alignment Research Center, his ask-me-anything thread on Less Wrong here, leaving the Bay Area
There's A Time For Everyone
January 12, 2022 · Original source
Micromarriages come from this post by Chris Olah. They’re a riff on micromorts, a one-in-a-million chance of dying. Risk analysts use micromorts to compare how dangerous different things are: scuba diving is 5 micromorts per dive; COVID is 2,500 micromorts per infection; climbing Mt. Everest is 30,000 micromorts per attempt. So by analogy, micromarriages are a one in a million chance of getting married. Maybe going to a party gets you 500 micromarriages, and signing up for a really good dating site gives you 10,000. If there’s a Mt. Everest equivalent, I don’t know about it.
Inline links: Micromarriages
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism
November 28, 2023 · Original source
I recognize at least eight of the authors of the RLAIF paper as EAs, and four members of the interpretability team, including team lead Chris Olah. Overall I think Anthropic’s safety team is pretty EA focused.