Alternative career paths could include things like government policy roles that have say a tenth of the impact of a global hub EA policy role but still are the highest impact opportunities available
I’m not sure policy effectiveness works like this. Perhaps AI policy is particularly concentrated where AI innovation is happening, but I would have thought e.g. animal welfare policy is pretty global, and while bigger markets have more impact, they correspondingly have less tractability / more competition, so the smaller market may be easier to find success in. It’s even more complicated than that when you realise that policies can be modelled on success in other countries, so positive change in Australia could be a useful resource for the global effort.
Agreed! Australia was a leader in plain packaging for tobacco. We were the first country to introduce it, and won against tobacco companies who sued under the WTO. Since then other countries have followed suit. And our actions on gun control following the Port Arthur massacre are often used as an exemplar for US policy, though with less success.
Riffing on this, Australia has a lot of farmland relative to other countries & we do a lot of export (including live export 🙁), so the value for dollar of animal welfare is probably higher than average.
I’m not sure policy effectiveness works like this. Perhaps AI policy is particularly concentrated where AI innovation is happening, but I would have thought e.g. animal welfare policy is pretty global, and while bigger markets have more impact, they correspondingly have less tractability / more competition, so the smaller market may be easier to find success in. It’s even more complicated than that when you realise that policies can be modelled on success in other countries, so positive change in Australia could be a useful resource for the global effort.
Agreed! Australia was a leader in plain packaging for tobacco. We were the first country to introduce it, and won against tobacco companies who sued under the WTO. Since then other countries have followed suit. And our actions on gun control following the Port Arthur massacre are often used as an exemplar for US policy, though with less success.
Riffing on this, Australia has a lot of farmland relative to other countries & we do a lot of export (including live export 🙁), so the value for dollar of animal welfare is probably higher than average.