We also think that roughly 90% of (competent) community-builders are focused on “typical community-building” (designed to get more alignment researchers). We think that roughly 70% should do typical community-building, and 30% should be buying time.
Unless I missed it, you didn’t discuss how community-builders can/should buy time. (If it’s the same as technical researchers, it’s weird to call them community-builders, I think.)
Good post.
Unless I missed it, you didn’t discuss how community-builders can/should buy time. (If it’s the same as technical researchers, it’s weird to call them community-builders, I think.)
Some practical ideas of how to achieve this (and a productive debate in the comments section of the risks from low-quality outreach efforts) can be found in my related forum post from earlier: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/juhMehg89FrLX9pTj/a-grand-strategy-to-recruit-ai-capabilities-researchers-into