Maybe this is a mildly spicy take, but I think as AI risks become more concrete and nearer term, our community should transition a portion of our time from “scouting” to “soldiering”.
Scout mindset is great for finding new problems and new solutions. But once we have an idea of the problem and ideas for specific solutions, we need to execute the grind to make things happen in the messy real world of people and politics.
This is a great example of how a small bit of “soldiering” by our community helps achieve practical impact.
Yep there has to be aspects of Soldiering in any real world work, and I think that might be especially important in this AI scenario. I don’t think its that spicy a take, @Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸 had a great quick take along similar lines here too.
“Everyone Should be a Mapmaker and Fear that Using the Map to Actually Do Something Could Make Them a Worse Mapmaker” would be a much less rousing title, but this is how many EAs and rationalists have chosen to interpret the book.
Thanks for the post @Luke Freeman 🔸 .
Maybe this is a mildly spicy take, but I think as AI risks become more concrete and nearer term, our community should transition a portion of our time from “scouting” to “soldiering”.
Scout mindset is great for finding new problems and new solutions. But once we have an idea of the problem and ideas for specific solutions, we need to execute the grind to make things happen in the messy real world of people and politics.
This is a great example of how a small bit of “soldiering” by our community helps achieve practical impact.
Yep there has to be aspects of Soldiering in any real world work, and I think that might be especially important in this AI scenario. I don’t think its that spicy a take, @Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸 had a great quick take along similar lines here too.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/efE6K5QCfzNTSb5pf/scouts-need-soldiers-for-their-work-to-be-worth-anything
Thanks for this link. This made me laugh:
“Everyone Should be a Mapmaker and Fear that Using the Map to Actually Do Something Could Make Them a Worse Mapmaker” would be a much less rousing title, but this is how many EAs and rationalists have chosen to interpret the book.