I would slightly modify step 1 as follows: if you think there’s a chance you might be useful to SIAI, send them a letter. If they don’t accept you, continue to step 2.
This isn’t exactly what I did. Instead I’m signing up as a volunteer. But in either case the SIAI is the closest thing I know of to a group of rational do-gooders who are actually cooperating. So I want to try and get involved.
I would slightly modify step 1 as follows: if you think there’s a chance you might be useful to SIAI, send them a letter. If they don’t accept you, continue to step 2.
This isn’t exactly what I did. Instead I’m signing up as a volunteer. But in either case the SIAI is the closest thing I know of to a group of rational do-gooders who are actually cooperating. So I want to try and get involved.
I agree. IMO FAI means to first contact and consult the smartest guys in the field, which is presumably the Yudkowsky-gang.