I think there are currently too few infosec people and people trying to become billionaires.
Infosec: this seems really helpful for AI safety and biosecurity in a lot of worlds, and I’m guessing it’s just much less sexy / popular than technical research. Maybe I’m wrong about the number of people here, but from attendance at an EAGxSF event it didn’t seem like we would be saturated.
Entrepreneurship: I think the basic argument for making tens of billions of dollars still holds. Just because many longtermist orgs are well-funded now doesn’t mean they will be in the future (crypto and other risk), and there might be ways to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on other things. My understanding is that even at the crypto peak there were <50 EAs trying to become billionaires, and there are even fewer now, which seems like a mistake.
I’ve thought about both of these paths myself, and I think they’re not quite as good as technical alignment research for me, but I can’t rule out that I’m just being a coward.
I think there are currently too few infosec people and people trying to become billionaires.
Infosec: this seems really helpful for AI safety and biosecurity in a lot of worlds, and I’m guessing it’s just much less sexy / popular than technical research. Maybe I’m wrong about the number of people here, but from attendance at an EAGxSF event it didn’t seem like we would be saturated.
Entrepreneurship: I think the basic argument for making tens of billions of dollars still holds. Just because many longtermist orgs are well-funded now doesn’t mean they will be in the future (crypto and other risk), and there might be ways to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on other things. My understanding is that even at the crypto peak there were <50 EAs trying to become billionaires, and there are even fewer now, which seems like a mistake.
I’ve thought about both of these paths myself, and I think they’re not quite as good as technical alignment research for me, but I can’t rule out that I’m just being a coward.