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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: ELK First Round Contest Winners, published by Mark Xu on January 26, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thank you to all those who have submitted proposals to the ELK proposal competition. We have evaluated all proposals submitted before January 14th[1]. Decisions are still being made on proposals submitted after January 14th. The deadline for submissions is February 15th, after which we will release summaries of the proposals and associated counterexamples. We evaluated 30 distinct proposals from 25 people. We awarded a total of $70,000 for proposals from the following 8 people: $20,000 for a proposal from Sam Marks $10,000 for a proposal from Dmitrii Krasheninnikov $5,000 for a proposal from Maria Shakhova $10,000 for proposals from P, who asked to remain anonymous $10,000 for a proposal from Scott Viteri $5,000 for a proposal from Jacob Hilton and Holly Mandel $10,000 for a proposal from Jacob Hilton We would have also awarded $15,000 for proposals from Holden Karnofsky, however he is on ARC’s board and is ineligible to receive the prize. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.