I meant that it’s definitely more efficient to grow the EA movement than to grow Yang’s constituency. That’s how it seems to me, at least. It takes millions of people to nominate a candidate.
Well, there are >100 million people who have to join some constituency (i.e. pick a candidate), whereas potential EA recruits aren’t otherwise picking between a small set of cults philosophical movements. Also, AI PhD-ready people are in much shorter supply than, e.g. Iowans, and they’d be giving up much much much more than someone just casting a vote for Andrew Yang.
There are numerous minor, subtle ways that EAs reduce AI risk. Small in comparison to a research career, but large in comparison to voting. (Voting can actually be one of them.)
I meant that it’s definitely more efficient to grow the EA movement than to grow Yang’s constituency. That’s how it seems to me, at least. It takes millions of people to nominate a candidate.
Well, there are >100 million people who have to join some constituency (i.e. pick a candidate), whereas potential EA recruits aren’t otherwise picking between a small set of cults philosophical movements. Also, AI PhD-ready people are in much shorter supply than, e.g. Iowans, and they’d be giving up much much much more than someone just casting a vote for Andrew Yang.
There are numerous minor, subtle ways that EAs reduce AI risk. Small in comparison to a research career, but large in comparison to voting. (Voting can actually be one of them.)