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If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited. This is also the place to discuss feature requests and other ideas you have for the site, if you don't want to write a full top-level post.
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I'm new here, but have been reading through the sequences and other posts for the last few weeks and would love some feedback on a post idea. I'm writing my theory of change for AI safety and how I can help. I've defined my priors, identified cruxes, and I'm in the middle of reading papers and blog posts to challenge my priors. I've seen a few theory of change posts (e.g., Critch's healthtech post), but I'm wondering if I should post mine as a working document, starting with an unfinished product and updating as I refine my beliefs.
Is an in-progress theory of change interesting/useful for LessWrong, or should I wait until it's complete?
Since this is also my first post here, I'm dropping some of my background info below.
Background: 10 years of professional experience, with the first 5 in structural engineering and the last 5 in consulting for US Transportation Agency Data/AI projects. This year I’ve been volunteering for Building Humane Technology to help with HumaneBench (benchmark showing how frontier models can be steered toward anti-humane behavior just by adjusting system prompts).
If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.
If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited. This is also the place to discuss feature requests and other ideas you have for the site, if you don't want to write a full top-level post.
If you're new to the community, you can start reading the Highlights from the Sequences, a collection of posts about the core ideas of LessWrong.
If you want to explore the community more, I recommend reading the Library, checking recent Curated posts, seeing if there are any meetups in your area, and checking out the Getting Started section of the LessWrong FAQ. If you want to orient to the content on the site, you can also check out the Concepts section.
The Open Thread tag is here. The Open Thread sequence is here.