Evaluator · round one
Co-founder and CEO of Lightcone Infrastructure, which runs Lightcone Commons, LessWrong and Lighthaven; SFF recommender in five rounds.
$12.0M of Oliver's recommendations funded
$6.73M granted through Oliver's order
Oliver Habryka is co-founder and CEO of Lightcone Infrastructure, which runs Lightcone Commons, LessWrong, the AI Alignment Forum, and the Lighthaven campus in Berkeley. He led the 2017 relaunch of LessWrong, which became one of the central venues for AI-alignment research and discussion. In 2021 the LessWrong team became Lightcone Infrastructure and widened its mission to building infrastructure for people working on existential risk.
Oliver has been one of the most active grant evaluators in AI safety for nearly a decade. He was a fund manager at the Long-Term Future Fund from 2019, writing the full public reasoning for its April 2019 grant round. He was a Recommender in five consecutive Survival and Flourishing Fund S-Process rounds, from 2019 through 2021, and is one of SFF's Speculation Granters.
He has discussed building LessWrong and Lighthaven on Patrick McKenzie's Complex Systems, The Filan Cabinet, and The Bayesian Conspiracy.
