aisafety.community - A living document of AI safety communities

This is the second time this was posted, and I'm really really glad that it was because I forgot about it the first time. It got ~30 upvotes each time (therefore disappearing relatively quickly), even though the second post was improved even further, and it seems unlikely that it will get an appropriate amount of upvotes if posted a third time, even though most people probably missed it both times.

Lesswrong needs some sort of solution to this, Lesswrong as a site should be more optimized towards steering people towards joining groups in person (and the events side tab is still extremely easy to miss). Putting this doc as the "featured banner" at the top is a really good idea (in a week or something, so all the people missing it now will be more likely to see it then instead of double-layering) but it's a temporary band-aid solution. We need the structure of the site to redirect more people to more in-person groups.

Would be cool if LessWrong hosted subforums/bubbles/research-groups for anyone who wanted to start one and invite their friends. You would have the ability to write a post only to your bubble (visible on your bubble's frontpage or a private filter to the main frontpage) or choose to crosspost it to main as well. Having the bubbles be on LW provides them a little prestige boost and could stimulate some folk to initiate new research covens for alignment or whatever (or *cough* social epistemology research bubble maybe).

You could also have the option to filter karma so you only see the karma assigned by people in your bubble. Or, just like you can subscribe to get notified when people post, you could "subscribe" to prioritise their karma too. You could make a custom karma-filter individual to you by subscribing to people or groups whose opinions you trust. And the individual-filtered karma could be transitive as well, according to some parameters you set yourself--similar to plex&co's EigenTrust project except it'd be EigenKarma. There's more cool stuff here, but I'm probably never going to actually finish a post about it, so better suggest it briefly to someone than not suggest it at all.

OK, done daydreaming. Back to work.

Updates!

1. Have been continually adding to this, up to 49 online communities.
2. Added a student groups section, with 12 entries and some extra fields (website, contact, calendar, mailing list), based on the AGISF list (in talks with the maintainer to set up painless syncing between the two systems).
3. Made a form where you can easily add entries.

Still getting consistent traffic, happy to see it getting used :)

Nice! Is there also a list of AI-safety corporations and non-profits, with a short assessment of each where  feasible: goals, techniques, leaders, number of employees, liveness, progress to date?

Updates:

• Simplified columns (link is now in the name of each entry, rather than a separate column, and made the names bold)
• Reordered to put some of the entries added by volunteers nearer the top (unknown people are adding stuff! excellent!)
• Moved one now-inactive project to the bottom
• Added a note about EA Gather Town's invite link breaking every month, and to go via the Discord instead.
• Updated icon
• Added note about who to talk to for one invite-only Slack
• Successfully applied for $1k credit for the software, which means we have edit histories enabled on this and all docs for about three years for free

Is this list intended to include university clubs and in-person local groups? I have a list of ~40 university groups, although most of them don't have a public online presence, and I was wondering if you think they should be added. I believe Blue Dot Impact (formerly EA Cambridge) wanted to make a website listing local groups.

I tried to add the MIRIx Discord, but it says "changes not saved. copy this doc to fully customize it". When I close the page and re-open it, my changes disappear.

↑ comment by plex (ete) · 2022-10-21T09:31:35.997Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Sorry about that, updated edit permissions, should work now!

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↑ comment by Vanessa Kosoy (vanessa-kosoy) · 2022-10-24T10:38:43.951Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Still doesn't work: I have the crossed-out-floppy-disk icon and when I click it, it says "changes not saved. copy this doc to fully customize it".

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↑ comment by plex (ete) · 2022-10-24T14:11:54.131Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

urg, okay, the settings look like they should work

but they also don't work for me on an alt account, so I've contacted support. I've added your ALTER email for now, and if they don't resolve this we will move to a different platform.

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↑ comment by plex (ete) · 2022-10-27T11:59:25.251Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Okay, got a reply and sorted out these settings.

↑ comment by Vanessa Kosoy (vanessa-kosoy) · 2022-10-24T15:03:13.222Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The link in the mail worked, thanks!