Here’s a (failure?) mode that I and others are already in, but might be too embarrassed to write about: taking weird career/financial risks, in order to obtain the financial security, to work on alignment full-time...
I’d be more glad if I saw non-academic noob-friendly programs that pay people, with little legible evidence of their abilities, to upskill full-time.
CEEALAR offers this (free accommodation and food, and a moderate stipend), and was set up to avoid the failure mode mentioned (not just for alignment, for EA in general).
CEEALAR offers this (free accommodation and food, and a moderate stipend), and was set up to avoid the failure mode mentioned (not just for alignment, for EA in general).
Heck yeah! Would love to see its model spread, too...