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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters.
On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...
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The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know:
* What types of evidence that intervention needs
* What types of evidence different sources can give us
In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages:
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I worked at OpenAI for three years, from 2021-2024 on the Alignment team, which eventually became the Superalignment team. I worked on scalable oversight, part of the team developing critiques as a technique for using language models to spot mistakes in other language models. I then worked to refine an idea from Nick Cammarata into a method for using language model to generate explanations for features in language models. I was then promoted to managing a team of 4 people which worked on trying to understand language model features in context, leading to the release of an open source "transformer debugger" tool.
I resigned from OpenAI on February 15, 2024.
FWIW on timelines:
Thank you for your work there. I’m curious about what made you resign, and also about why you’ve chosen now to communicate that?
(I expect that you are under some form of NDA, and that if you were willing and able to talk about why you resigned then you would have done so in your initial post. Therefore, for readers interested in some possibly related news: last month, Daniel Kokotajlo quit OpenAI’s Futures/Governance team “due to losing confidence that it [OpenAI] would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” and a Superalignment researcher was forced out of OpenAI in what may have been a political firing (source). OpenAI appears to be losing its most safety-conscious people.)
Hi William! Thanks for posting. Can you elaborate on your motivation for posting this Quick Take?
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Presumably NDA + forbidden to talk about the NDA (hence forbidden to talk about being forbidden to talk about ... )