I remember a post by Hanson (can’t seem to find the exact url at the moment), where he said that academic big names are “risk averse,” but if a long shot topic becomes hot/fashionable, the big names simply move in on the innovators’ turf, and take over the topic.
I remember a post by Hanson (can’t seem to find the exact url at the moment), where he said that academic big names are “risk averse,” but if a long shot topic becomes hot/fashionable, the big names simply move in on the innovators’ turf, and take over the topic.
If this results in existential risk reduction, let me be the first to raise a glass to xrisk’s “fashionability”.
This sounds like it reduces down to “I was into X-risk before it was cool.”