What progress have you made since your last update?
I have managed to buy these books using some nice discounts:
13 copies of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. (27.9 dollars each, 362.7 dollars in total)
4 copies of The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025 by Dwarkesh Patel and Gavin Leech (30.9 dollars each, 123.69 dollars in total)
4 copies of The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian (17.67 dollars each, 70.68 dollars in total)
1 copy of Introduction to AI Safety, Ethics, and Society by Dan Hendrycks (81.97 dollars)
Total book purchase cost: 638.95 US dollars.
The shipping to Kazakhstan is estimated to cost around 116 US dollars.
I expect to spend around 754.95 USD in total.
What are your next steps?
Wait until books arrive, pay the import fees, give the books to professors, MS/PhD students, and heads of labs