Kabir Kumar

Just refuse to work on bad things and see if they fire you. There's not much time left for resumes to matter. Also, firing someone for refusing to work on bad things is actually very costly. If it's not obvious that you're working on bad things, but the company is...

Basics: ANSWERING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE QUESTION, Either making something up that they want to answer instead or going back to an easier to answer question. Or back to a question that lets them repeat a talking point Common phrases: - "to go back to your previous question" - "to...

It's come to my attention that people on Lesswrong are really really really bad at defending themselves against even semi competent deceptions. And worse, they massively overestimate their own defenses. To help against this, this will be the start of a sequence named Defense Against the Deceptive Arts. I will...

I tried to organize a program where participants actually sincerely tried to solve the hard part of alignment, for up to 5 weeks. It went wrong a lot, largely due to fixable mistakes. Good things about the program: * I learnt a lot about alignment in doing the prep, interviewed...

I wrote this in DMs to Akshyae Singh, who's trying to start something to help bring people together to improve AI Safety communication. After writing it, I thought that it might be useful for others as well. I'd like to preface with the information that I'm not a marketing expert,...

[LessWrong Community event announcement: https://www.lesswrong.com/events/rRLPycsLdjFpZ4cKe/ai-safety-law-a-thon-we-need-more-technical-ai-safety] Many talented lawyers do not contribute to AI Safety, simply because they've never had a chance to work with AIS researchers or don’t know what the field entails. I am hopeful that this can improve if we create more structured opportunities for cooperation. And this...

My father is now saying to my little sister that if you want to be a doctor, you can only sleep 2 hours a day. He doesn't care about the truth being sacred. He will lie to himself, to others, to anyone. He has not seen the truth as sacred...