Eli Tyre

Broad project support for rationality and community building interventions

Eli has worked on a large variety of interesting and valuable projects over the last few years, many of them too small to have much payment infrastructure, resulting in him doing a lot of work without appropriate compensation. I think his work has been a prime example of picking low-hanging fruit by using local information and solving problems that aren’t worth solving at scale, and I want him to have resources to continue working in this space.

Concrete examples of projects he has worked on that I am excited about:

• Facilitating conversations between top people in AI alignment (I’ve in particular heard very good things about the 3-day conversation between Eric Drexler and Scott Garrabrant that Eli helped facilitate)
• Organizing advanced workshops on Double Crux and other key rationality techniques
• Doing a variety of small independent research projects, like this evaluation of birth order effects in mathematicians
• Providing many new EAs and rationalists with advice and guidance on how to get traction on working on important problems
• Helping John Salvatier develop techniques around skill transfer

I think Eli has exceptional judgment, and the goal of this grant is to allow him to take actions with greater leverage by hiring contractors, paying other community members for services, and paying for other varied expenses associated with his projects.