What makes you think that this secondary effect, which requires trauma reduction in an enormous number of people (to generate network effects) or a tightly-knit group of people, would have a greater impact than the primary effect of “people have less trauma and feel better”?
What makes you think that this secondary effect, which requires trauma reduction in an enormous number of people (to generate network effects) or a tightly-knit group of people, would have a greater impact than the primary effect of “people have less trauma and feel better”?
Thanks for that question! Weakly held. Some sense that we’re under-invested in “improving coordination” (see: http://www.existential-risk.org/concept.pdf).
But it’s a good point that it would be hard! And I agree that tightly knit groups may be a better approach for this.
e.g. trauma reduction for a group of AI safety researchers to help them better coordinate, or something like that.
And I’m also very interested in the direct impact, too.