Critique-a-Thon $500 Prize Fund Proposal for AI-Plans.com

Project summary

AI-Plans.com is a contributable compendium of alignment plans and the criticisms against them. We currently have over 100 alignment plans on the site and are in the process of adding more. Several alignment researchers, including Tom Everrit, Dan Hendrycks, and Stuart Russell, are interested in the site and other researchers have already been finding useful papers on the site and submitting plans to the site.
We are hosting a critique-a-thon on the 1st of August, which will last for 10 days, with a prize fund of $500.

What are this project's goals and how will you achieve them?

The goal of this project is to encourage high-quality critiques of alignment plans on AI-Plans.com. Critiques will be judged on accuracy, precision, communication, evidence, and novelty by myself, members of the team, and a couple of alignment researchers. The top three critiques will be awarded from the prize fund, with two honorable mentions also receiving a prize.

How will this funding be used?

The funding will be used to award the top critiques from the critique-a-thon. This will incentivize high-quality critiques and help improve the content on AI-Plans.com. The prize fund will be split as follows:

1st place: $200

2nd place: $125

3rd place: $75

Honorable mention 1: $50

Honorable mention 2: $50

Who is on your team and what's your track record on similar projects?

Our team includes Jonathan Ng, an alignment researcher at EleutherAI who will be taking a look at some critiques. Other members of the team include an expert QA with many years of experience and Azai, who has a strong background in mathematics. DragonGod, who is studying an Msc in Theoretical Computer Science will also be a judge for critiques.
We have successfully launched AI-Plans.com in beta and have already added **over 100 alignment plans **to the site.
I myself, have helped get a start-up off the ground from nothing, going door to door, to have 3 branches, thousands of customers and schools requesting for internships. During the process I saw a lot of other start-ups, with much more qualified people fail completely and learnt what it takes to fail(overconfidence in the product, lack of outreach and market research, laziness, many things) and what it takes to succeed- determination and a sharp, user-focused mind.
I have been assisting Stake Out AI with narrative-building and proofreading and helping out at VAISU as well. I'm confident in my skill of breaking down the reasons an idea can and will fail and then finding ways to reach into it and extract something valuable.
Currently, 10+ people have joined the critique-a-thon, on day of announcement.

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails? (premortem)

If this project fails, it could be due to a lack of participation or low-quality submissions. This could result in less content being added to AI-Plans.com and slower progress towards our goal of creating a comprehensive compendium of alignment plans and criticisms. Despite being the most likely form of failure, it's not very likely, since we already have 10 plus participants, on the day we announced the critique-a-thon.

What other funding are you or your project getting?

This project and AI-plans.com are currently unfunded passion projects. The requested $500 for prizes would be the first and only external funding for efforts on the site thus far.