What are the best non-LW places to read on alignment progress?

post by Raemon · 2023-07-07T00:57:21.417Z · LW · GW · 14 comments

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I've lately been thinking I should prioritize a bit more keeping up with alignment-relevant progress outside of LessWrong/Alignment Forum. 

I'm curious if people have recommendations that stand out as reliably valuable, and/or have tips for finding "the good stuff" on places where the signal/noise ratio isn't very good. (Seems fine to also apply this to LW/AF)

Some places I've looked into somewhat (though not made major habits around so far) include:

• Blogs of OpenAI/Deepmind/Anthropic
• reddit.com/r/ControlProblem 
• Stampy Discord 
• EleutherAI Discord

I generally struggle with figuring out how much to keep up with stuff – it seems like there's more than one full-time-job's worth of stuff to keep up with, and it's potentially overanchoring to think about "the stuff people have worked on" as opposed to "stuff that hasn't been worked on yet."

I'm personally coming at this from a lens of "understand the field well enough to think about how to make useful infrastructural advances", but I'm interested in hearing thoughts about various ways people keep-up-with-stuff and how they gain value from it.

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