I think there’s far more people who’d put their hand up to facilitate an intro course vs. handling the logistics.
I organised some iterations of the fundamentals course for AI Safety Australia and New Zealand and the scheduling was rather painful even though it honestly didn’t take that long in terms of hours. As the saying goes, Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
I suspect that country groups would benefit the most from this, then city groups and finally university groups. In-person cohorts provide the most benefit to university groups where many people are on campus anyway (making the trade-off is more significant), then next is city groups where everyone could at least potentially attend an in-person group even if inconvenient and last is country groups.
A final thought on why this might be more impactful than it seems at first glance: Ideally you’d want your group to hit a critical mass where this kicks off a virtuous cycle of growth. Lowering the barrier to achieving this could potentially significantly increase the number of local groups that are able to reach this level.
Agreed.
I think there’s far more people who’d put their hand up to facilitate an intro course vs. handling the logistics.
I organised some iterations of the fundamentals course for AI Safety Australia and New Zealand and the scheduling was rather painful even though it honestly didn’t take that long in terms of hours. As the saying goes, Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
I suspect that country groups would benefit the most from this, then city groups and finally university groups. In-person cohorts provide the most benefit to university groups where many people are on campus anyway (making the trade-off is more significant), then next is city groups where everyone could at least potentially attend an in-person group even if inconvenient and last is country groups.
A final thought on why this might be more impactful than it seems at first glance: Ideally you’d want your group to hit a critical mass where this kicks off a virtuous cycle of growth. Lowering the barrier to achieving this could potentially significantly increase the number of local groups that are able to reach this level.