But if it took on average 50 000 events for one such a key introduction to happen, then we might as well give up on having events. Or find a better way to do it. Otherwise we are just wasting everyone’s time.
But all the other events were impactful, just not compared to those one or two events. The goal of having all the events is to hopefully be one of the 1⁄50,000 that has ridiculous outsized impact—It’s high expected value even if comparatively all the other events have low impact. And again, that’s comparatively. Compared to say, most other events, an event on AI safety is ridiculously high impact.
It can’t take more that ~50 events for every AI Safety researcher to get to know each other.
This is true, much of the networking impact of events is frontloaded.
But all the other events were impactful, just not compared to those one or two events. The goal of having all the events is to hopefully be one of the 1⁄50,000 that has ridiculous outsized impact—It’s high expected value even if comparatively all the other events have low impact. And again, that’s comparatively. Compared to say, most other events, an event on AI safety is ridiculously high impact.
This is true, much of the networking impact of events is frontloaded.