Sounds like a great plan! Even if you end up deciding that you can’t make research progress (not that you should give up after just 4 days!), I can suggest a bunch of other activities that might plausibly contribute towards this.
I hadn’t considered that as a career, I live in Europe and we don’t have that kind of organizations here, so it will probably just be a hobby.
I expect that this will change within the next year or so (for example, there are plans for a Longtermist Hotel in Berlin and I think it’s very likely to happen).
• Applying to facilitate the next rounds of the AGI Safety Fundamentals course (apparently they compensated facilitators this time) • Contributing to Stampy Wiki • AI Safety Movement Building—this can be as simple as hosting dinners with two or three people who are also interested • General EA/rationalist community building • Trying to improve online outreach. Take for example the AI Safety Discussion (Open) fb group. They could probably be making better use of the sidebar. The moderator might be open to updating it if someone reached out to them and offered to put in the work. It might be worth seeing what other groups are out there too.
Let me know if none of these sound interesting and I could try to think up some more.
Sounds like a great plan! Even if you end up deciding that you can’t make research progress (not that you should give up after just 4 days!), I can suggest a bunch of other activities that might plausibly contribute towards this.
I expect that this will change within the next year or so (for example, there are plans for a Longtermist Hotel in Berlin and I think it’s very likely to happen).
What other activities?
Here’s a few off the top of my mind:
• Applying to facilitate the next rounds of the AGI Safety Fundamentals course (apparently they compensated facilitators this time)
• Contributing to Stampy Wiki
• AI Safety Movement Building—this can be as simple as hosting dinners with two or three people who are also interested
• General EA/rationalist community building
• Trying to improve online outreach. Take for example the AI Safety Discussion (Open) fb group. They could probably be making better use of the sidebar. The moderator might be open to updating it if someone reached out to them and offered to put in the work. It might be worth seeing what other groups are out there too.
Let me know if none of these sound interesting and I could try to think up some more.