New Cause Area Proposal

post by CallumMcDougall (TheMcDouglas) · 2025-04-01T07:12:34.360Z · LW · GW · 4 comments

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Epistemic status - statistically verified.

 

I'm writing this post to draw peoples' attention to a new cause area proposal - haircuts for alignment researchers.

Aside from the obvious benefits implied by the graph (i.e. haircuts having the potential to directly improve organizational stability), this would represent possibly the only pre-singularity opportunity we'll have to found an org named "Clippy".

I await further investment. 

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comment by Raemon · 2025-04-01T18:53:36.835Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Seems at odds with longhairism.

comment by p.b. · 2025-04-01T19:44:46.408Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This but unironically. 

comment by Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali (sheikh-abdur-raheem-ali) · 2025-04-01T16:47:58.949Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

True. Lower haircuts allow for more leverage, typically defined as the diagonal elements of the hat matrix, does wearing a fedora impact the degree of hair chaos?