Alex Cloud

I discussed this with Alex Cloud. I'm somewhat pessimistic about whether the technique will both work and not have a crippling alignment tax, but he made a pretty compelling case that it MIGHT, and could be a big deal if it worked, and it's a fairly elegant idea that seems like it has potential for some cool things even if the exact proposal doesn't work.

Either way, this was a fairly cheap grant, a small fraction of the cost of labor going into the project, and it seems valuable to gather more data on whether the technique works and I expect that having more compute will make the quantity and quality of the evidence better, especially if they can go beyond using tiny stories to more realistic settings. There were several experiments Alex and I agreed would be good ideas, and I would be keen to see them happen.