Dunno, would be nice to figure out how useful this AMA was for other people. My guess is that they should at some rate/scale (in combination with other approaches like going on a podcast or writing papers or writing informal blog posts), and the question is how much communication like that to do in an absolute sense and how much should be AMAs vs other things.
Maybe I’d guess that typically like 1% of public communication should be something like an AMA, and that something like 5-10% of researcher time should be public communication (though as mentioned in another comment you might have some specialization there which would cut it down, though I think that the AMA format is less likely to be split off, though that might be an argument for doing less AMA-like stuff and more stuff that gets split off...). So that would suggest like 0.05-0.1% of time on AMA-like activities. If the typical one takes a full-time-day-equivalent, then that’s like doing one every 2 years, which I guess would be way more AMAs than we have. This AMA is more like a full-time day so maybe every 4 years?
That feels a bit like an overestimate, but overall I’d guess that it would be good on the margin for there to be more alignment researcher AMAs. (But I’m not sure if AMAs are the best AMA-like thing.)
In general I think that talking with other researchers and practitioners 1:1 is way more valuable than broadcast communication.
Should more AI alignment researchers run AMAs?
Dunno, would be nice to figure out how useful this AMA was for other people. My guess is that they should at some rate/scale (in combination with other approaches like going on a podcast or writing papers or writing informal blog posts), and the question is how much communication like that to do in an absolute sense and how much should be AMAs vs other things.
Maybe I’d guess that typically like 1% of public communication should be something like an AMA, and that something like 5-10% of researcher time should be public communication (though as mentioned in another comment you might have some specialization there which would cut it down, though I think that the AMA format is less likely to be split off, though that might be an argument for doing less AMA-like stuff and more stuff that gets split off...). So that would suggest like 0.05-0.1% of time on AMA-like activities. If the typical one takes a full-time-day-equivalent, then that’s like doing one every 2 years, which I guess would be way more AMAs than we have. This AMA is more like a full-time day so maybe every 4 years?
That feels a bit like an overestimate, but overall I’d guess that it would be good on the margin for there to be more alignment researcher AMAs. (But I’m not sure if AMAs are the best AMA-like thing.)
In general I think that talking with other researchers and practitioners 1:1 is way more valuable than broadcast communication.