AGI Strategies

person

Ben Pace

LessWrong / Lightcone Infrastructure team

Long-time LessWrong contributor and member of the Lightcone Infrastructure team that maintains LessWrong and the AI Alignment Forum.

current Team Member, Lightcone Infrastructure

Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Argues internet community infrastructure, especially LessWrong and the Alignment Forum, is itself a load-bearing part of the alignment research ecosystem.

Most alignment research happens between papers, in long-running discussions on LessWrong and the Alignment Forum. Maintaining that infrastructure is not separable from the field's progress.
articleLessWrong· Lightcone Infrastructure· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Ben Pace's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Aaron Courville

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Université de Montréal; Deep Learning textbook co-author

  • Adam Jermyn

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Anthropic; previously astrophysics

  • Adam Kalai

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Microsoft Research; AI fairness and safety

  • Agnes Callard

    Agnes Callard

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist

  • Ajeya Cotra

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.