Most of these aren’t so much well-formed questions, as research/methodological issues I would like to see more focus on:
Operationalisations of AI safety that don’t exacerbate geopolitical tensions with China—or ideally that actively seek ways to collaborate with China on reducing the major risks.
Ways to materially incentivise good work and disincentivise bad work within nonprofit organisations, especially effectiveness-minded organisations
Looking for ways to do data-driven analyses on political work especially advocacy; correct me if wrong, but the recommendations in EA space for political advocacy seem to necessarily boil down to a lot of gut-instincting on whether someone having successfully executed Project A makes their work on Project B have high expectation
Research into the difficulty of becoming a successful civilisation after recovery from civilisational collapse (I wrote more about this here)
How much scope is there for more work or more funding in the nuclear safety space, and what is its current state? Last I heard, it had lost a bunch of funding, such that highly skilled/experienced diplomats in the space were having to find unrelated jobs. Is that still true?
Most of these aren’t so much well-formed questions, as research/methodological issues I would like to see more focus on:
Operationalisations of AI safety that don’t exacerbate geopolitical tensions with China—or ideally that actively seek ways to collaborate with China on reducing the major risks.
Ways to materially incentivise good work and disincentivise bad work within nonprofit organisations, especially effectiveness-minded organisations
Looking for ways to do data-driven analyses on political work especially advocacy; correct me if wrong, but the recommendations in EA space for political advocacy seem to necessarily boil down to a lot of gut-instincting on whether someone having successfully executed Project A makes their work on Project B have high expectation
Research into the difficulty of becoming a successful civilisation after recovery from civilisational collapse (I wrote more about this here)
How much scope is there for more work or more funding in the nuclear safety space, and what is its current state? Last I heard, it had lost a bunch of funding, such that highly skilled/experienced diplomats in the space were having to find unrelated jobs. Is that still true?