If only it were a bit like voting, where everyone’s vote would add equally or at least close to it. Right now there is basically nothing you can do to help alignment research, unless you are a researcher. They have money, they have talent… It’s not even like voting blue in a deep red state, or vice versa. There you are at least adding to the statistics of votes, something that might some day change the outcome of another election down the road. Here you are past the event horizon, given the setup, and there will be no reprieve. You may die in the singularity, or emerge into another universe, but there is no going back.
If only it were a bit like voting, where everyone’s vote would add equally or at least close to it. Right now there is basically nothing you can do to help alignment research, unless you are a researcher. They have money, they have talent… It’s not even like voting blue in a deep red state, or vice versa. There you are at least adding to the statistics of votes, something that might some day change the outcome of another election down the road. Here you are past the event horizon, given the setup, and there will be no reprieve. You may die in the singularity, or emerge into another universe, but there is no going back.