Interesting question. The sous-entendu might be “how much of this post was written for you” and the answer would be “probably a lot”. I don’t think I have the mind or time or stamina to work on the front lines, and so so far my most concrete plan is writing a few more LessWrong posts based on various helpful-seeming ideas. This post outlined a few options I and others in the same position as me have. Do you have any more ideas?
This is a good post, so I’d definitely encourage you to write up a few more posts.
I know very little about you, so it’d be hard for me to make good suggestions, but here’s two possibilities for your consideration:
Help other people figure out how they can contribute, particularly those looking to contribute in a non-technical way. If this is something you’d be interested in doing, I’d probably invest some more time in understanding the strategic landscape first (before someone starts advising, it’s important to have a robust model of what potential downside risks exist)
If you run out of post ideas, find others with things they’d like to write up if they had time and help them write it up
Hello! I thought about what you suggested and have been doing my best to understand the technicalities of alignment and the general coordination landscape, but that’s still ongoing. I’ll write more posts myself, but did you have anyone in mind for that last part, finding others who’d like posts written up?
Out of curiosity, what role do you see yourself playing?
Interesting question. The sous-entendu might be “how much of this post was written for you” and the answer would be “probably a lot”. I don’t think I have the mind or time or stamina to work on the front lines, and so so far my most concrete plan is writing a few more LessWrong posts based on various helpful-seeming ideas. This post outlined a few options I and others in the same position as me have. Do you have any more ideas?
This is a good post, so I’d definitely encourage you to write up a few more posts.
I know very little about you, so it’d be hard for me to make good suggestions, but here’s two possibilities for your consideration:
Help other people figure out how they can contribute, particularly those looking to contribute in a non-technical way. If this is something you’d be interested in doing, I’d probably invest some more time in understanding the strategic landscape first (before someone starts advising, it’s important to have a robust model of what potential downside risks exist)
If you run out of post ideas, find others with things they’d like to write up if they had time and help them write it up
Hello! I thought about what you suggested and have been doing my best to understand the technicalities of alignment and the general coordination landscape, but that’s still ongoing. I’ll write more posts myself, but did you have anyone in mind for that last part, finding others who’d like posts written up?
I didn’t particularly have anyone in mind unfortunately.