I’m treating the number of subscribers on 80,000 hours as the total pool of people at least somewhat interested in EA. I’m planning to do work on a task backlog because there’s such a large difference between the total pool and those that are actively working on EA-adjacent projects. It seems like having a good onboarding process that could include some volunteer work for those that are just getting started would help drive more engagement down the line.
I think it would probably start out as meta-focused, but I could imagine orgs from specific cause areas could post one-off projects to the backlog as well. That would be a good way for someone interested in AI safety, that isn’t currently able to directly work on it with their career, to contribute.
I’m treating the number of subscribers on 80,000 hours as the total pool of people at least somewhat interested in EA. I’m planning to do work on a task backlog because there’s such a large difference between the total pool and those that are actively working on EA-adjacent projects. It seems like having a good onboarding process that could include some volunteer work for those that are just getting started would help drive more engagement down the line.
I think it would probably start out as meta-focused, but I could imagine orgs from specific cause areas could post one-off projects to the backlog as well. That would be a good way for someone interested in AI safety, that isn’t currently able to directly work on it with their career, to contribute.