I’m open to there being new evidence on funding, but I’d also want to make a distinction between existential risk and longtermism as reasons for funding. I could reject the ‘Astronomical Waste’ argument and still think that preventing the worst impacts of Nuclear War/Climate Change from affecting the current generation held massive moral value and deserved funding.
As for being a community builder, I don’t have experience there, but I guess I’d make some suggestions/distinctions:
If you have a co-director for the community in question who is more AI-focused, perhaps split responsibilities along cause area lines
Be open about your personal position (i.e. being unpursuaded about the value of AI risk) but separate that from being a community builder where you introduce the various major cause areas (including AI) and present the arguments for and against it
I don’t think you should have to update or defer your own views in order to be a community builder at all, and I’d encourage you to hold on to that feeling of being unconvinced
I’m open to there being new evidence on funding, but I’d also want to make a distinction between existential risk and longtermism as reasons for funding. I could reject the ‘Astronomical Waste’ argument and still think that preventing the worst impacts of Nuclear War/Climate Change from affecting the current generation held massive moral value and deserved funding.
As for being a community builder, I don’t have experience there, but I guess I’d make some suggestions/distinctions:
If you have a co-director for the community in question who is more AI-focused, perhaps split responsibilities along cause area lines
Be open about your personal position (i.e. being unpursuaded about the value of AI risk) but separate that from being a community builder where you introduce the various major cause areas (including AI) and present the arguments for and against it
I don’t think you should have to update or defer your own views in order to be a community builder at all, and I’d encourage you to hold on to that feeling of being unconvinced
Hope that helps! :)