Maybe stuff like building large, civilizational-resilience bunkers, although this is very speculative and you’d have to independently start a whole company since few people are working on it today.
Bunkers is something I didn’t include in my list because I don’t have stable well-formed opinions on it yet, but if someone is interested in working on bunkers I’d definitely encourage them to contact me at the link above!
And, wow, that 80K quote is very out of date!
At present in biosecurity, I would be substantially more excited about meeting a marginal EA engineer than a marginal EA bio PhD or policy advocate. (Not that more of those wouldn’t be great!) I’m not sure how many marginal engineers I would need before that ceased to be the case – but right now the differential in numbers is so big that even a few promising people would make a huge difference.
Bunkers is something I didn’t include in my list because I don’t have stable well-formed opinions on it yet, but if someone is interested in working on bunkers I’d definitely encourage them to contact me at the link above!
And, wow, that 80K quote is very out of date!
At present in biosecurity, I would be substantially more excited about meeting a marginal EA engineer than a marginal EA bio PhD or policy advocate. (Not that more of those wouldn’t be great!) I’m not sure how many marginal engineers I would need before that ceased to be the case – but right now the differential in numbers is so big that even a few promising people would make a huge difference.