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Aug 24 - 26, 2023Online and in person

Distillation Write-a-thon 2.0

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Join us for the Distillation Writathon where you are tasked with writing more digestible versions of existing literature in AI safety research and theory!

Overview

Hosted by AI Safety Info in partnership with Apart Research

See the information document for up-to-date information on the event, e.g. how the top projects are selected.

You have multiple options for questions to attempt to distill!

  • Pick a question from our idea sheet to work on
  • Take one from the full list of questions on Coda, if it has a status of “Not started”, “In progress”, or “Bulletpoint sketch”
  • Think of a new question (but first ask in the #distillation-hackathon channel on Discord if it’s a good fit for the site)
  • Use a keyword to find another question already in the system. For example, if you want to see if there’s a question in progress about Cartesian frames:
  1. Go to aisafety.info
  2. Search for "cartesian frames"
  3. Click “I’m asking something else” when no live articles show up
  4. Click on the “edit” button next to one of the in-progress articles that show up to go to the doc

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Resources

Get inspired for your own projects with these ideas developed during the reading groups!

Schedule

  • Friday, August 25th, 7am UTC: Participants may start!
  • Sunday, August 27th, 11pm UTC: Wrap-up Discord/GatherTown group call

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