Toby Ord's Intellectual Neighborhood
3D visualization of researchers by semantic similarity to his three main themes
Toby Ord
- The reference point
All 3 themes
- Rare multi-domain overlap (Kaj_Sotala)
2 themes
- Significant overlap (DragonGod, Cole Wyeth...)
1 theme
- Domain specialists
Key Insights
RL Scaling (Closest Match)
1a3orn
- "Parameter Scaling Comes for RL"
Pablo Villalobos
- Training/inference compute tradeoffs
Matrice Jacobine
- Does RL incentivize reasoning?
Ryan Kidd
- Inference scaling safety implications
Existential Risk
Kaj_Sotala
- S-risks, long-term trajectories
DragonGod
- X-risk and longtermism
fowlertm
- Existential risk analysis
Nick Bostrom
references throughout
Infinite Ethics
Chris_Leong
- "Surreal Decisions" summary
Cleo Nardo
- Decision theory overlaps
Stuart_Armstrong
- Bounded utility functions
Pascal's wager/mugging discussions