Gavin

Co-founder of Arb, an AI / forecasting / etc consultancy. Doing a technical AI PhD.

Conflicts of interest: ESPR, EPSRC, Emergent Ventures, OpenPhil, Infrastructure Fund, Alvea.

Posts

Shallow review of live agendas in alignment & safety
by Gavin @ 2023-11-27 | +76 | 0 comments

On being compromised
by Gavin @ 2023-01-05 | +187 | 0 comments

Sir Gavin and the green sky
by Gavin @ 2022-12-17 | +50 | 0 comments

Hugh Thompson Jr (1943–2006)
by Gavin @ 2022-12-10 | +95 | 0 comments

James Lovelock (1919 – 2022)
by Gavin @ 2022-11-30 | +57 | 0 comments

Carl Djerassi (1923–2014)
by Gavin @ 2022-11-29 | +36 | 0 comments

What I learned from the criticism contest
by Gavin @ 2022-10-01 | +170 | 0 comments

The sense of a start
by Gavin @ 2022-09-28 | +53 | 0 comments

Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
by Gavin @ 2022-09-03 | +496 | 0 comments

Bruce Kent (1929–2022)
by Gavin @ 2022-06-10 | +47 | 0 comments

What's the causal effect of a PhD?
by Gavin @ 2022-06-05 | +26 | 0 comments

Norms and features for the Forum
by Gavin @ 2022-05-16 | +62 | 0 comments

Emergent Ventures AI
by Gavin @ 2022-04-08 | +22 | 0 comments

Case for emergency response teams
by Gavin, Jan_Kulveit @ 2022-04-05 | +247 | 0 comments

Covid memorial: 1ppm
by Gavin @ 2022-04-02 | +121 | 0 comments

Community in six hours
by Gavin @ 2022-04-01 | +47 | 0 comments

Paul Farmer (1959 – 2022)
by Gavin @ 2022-03-24 | +140 | 0 comments

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots
by Gavin @ 2022-03-18 | +77 | 0 comments

Mediocre AI safety as existential risk
by Gavin @ 2022-03-16 | +52 | 0 comments

Comparing top forecasters and domain experts
by Gavin, Misha_Yagudin, Arb @ 2022-03-06 | +205 | 0 comments

Phil Harvey (1938 - 2021)
by Gavin @ 2022-03-04 | +120 | 0 comments

Gavin's Quick takes
by Gavin @ 2022-01-29 | +5 | 0 comments

Off Road: support for EAs struggling at uni
by Gavin, Daystar Eld @ 2022-01-21 | +129 | 0 comments

Writing about my job: Data Scientist
by Gavin @ 2021-07-19 | +63 | 0 comments

AGI risk: analogies & arguments
by Gavin @ 2021-03-23 | +31 | 0 comments

The academic contribution to AI safety seems large
by Gavin @ 2020-07-30 | +117 | 0 comments

[Link] The option value of civilization
by Gavin @ 2019-01-06 | 0 | 0 comments

Existential risk as common cause
by Gavin @ 2018-12-05 | +49 | 0 comments