I’m currently working to form my own models here. I’m not sure if this post concretely helped me but it’s nice to see other people grappling with it.
One thing I notice is that this post is sort of focused on “developing inside views as a researcher, so you can do research.” But an additional lens here is “Have an inside view so you can give advice to other people, or do useful community building, or build useful meta-tools for research, or fund research.
In my case I already feel like I have a solid inside view of “AGI is important”, and “timelines might be short-ish”, but am lacking in “okay, but what do we do about it?”. And the most important problem (for me) is that as a LessWrong admin and curator of various in-person offices/retreats/projects, I’m not sure which specific projects to focus on fostering.
I have a general sense of “all the promising avenues should ideally be getting funding”. But attention is still limited. Which things make sense to curate? Which things make sense to crosspost to Alignment Forum? A retreat or office can only have so many people, and it matters not just if the people are “good/promising” in some sense, but that they have good intellectual chemistry.
I also have a sense that, working in a meta-org, some of the best meta-work is to provide concrete object-level-work for people to do.
I’m currently working to form my own models here. I’m not sure if this post concretely helped me but it’s nice to see other people grappling with it.
One thing I notice is that this post is sort of focused on “developing inside views as a researcher, so you can do research.” But an additional lens here is “Have an inside view so you can give advice to other people, or do useful community building, or build useful meta-tools for research, or fund research.
In my case I already feel like I have a solid inside view of “AGI is important”, and “timelines might be short-ish”, but am lacking in “okay, but what do we do about it?”. And the most important problem (for me) is that as a LessWrong admin and curator of various in-person offices/retreats/projects, I’m not sure which specific projects to focus on fostering.
I have a general sense of “all the promising avenues should ideally be getting funding”. But attention is still limited. Which things make sense to curate? Which things make sense to crosspost to Alignment Forum? A retreat or office can only have so many people, and it matters not just if the people are “good/promising” in some sense, but that they have good intellectual chemistry.
I also have a sense that, working in a meta-org, some of the best meta-work is to provide concrete object-level-work for people to do.