How do we bootstrap the Open Research Institute?
Guys, several people reached out in DMs asking what are the alternatives if they want to do research in interpretability and alignment. Anthropic recruiter was kind enough to send me a list of possible programs along with the farewell letter. Here they are:
- MATS
- ARENA
- Timaeus
- UK/US AISI
- METR
- Constellation's Program Management Team
- Apollo's evals team
- Eleos
I failed my Anthropic interview and came to tell you all about it so you don't have to
One unresolved tension here is how to mix individual backers with institutional backers. Andy covered his first year’s expenses via a grant from Emergent Ventures for example. This might be a strong argument for a more sophisticated platform than Substack to run the subscriptions through - ideally you’d like some nice way to combine individual... See more





