We often seemed to be considering projects that didn’t really need “incubating”, as opposed to convincing an existing team or org to work on them (e.g. a new research agenda), and this felt like a feature of the AI x-risk space.
This in particular resonated with me and largely reflects how I updated my views on AI x/gc-risk incubation.
My (also low resilience take) is that the AI safety ecosystem can probably more effectively get a project or idea off the ground where there’s already pooled infrastructure and other resources (e.g. larger existing think tanks). And that leveraging the incubation experience & skills you mentioned above (and bringing them in a coordinated way to) to these existing infrastructures could more effectively accelerate new projects, rather than having to pool many different resources (networks, talent, funds, expertise, reputation, track-record, etc.) together by oneself (with a smaller team).
I said this elsewhere but I’ll repeat myself: I think it’s fantastic that you took the time to write this up (and erred on the side of posting) and in doing this adding transparency to the LT/x-risk entrepreneurship community which seems at times impenetrable.
This in particular resonated with me and largely reflects how I updated my views on AI x/gc-risk incubation.
My (also low resilience take) is that the AI safety ecosystem can probably more effectively get a project or idea off the ground where there’s already pooled infrastructure and other resources (e.g. larger existing think tanks). And that leveraging the incubation experience & skills you mentioned above (and bringing them in a coordinated way to) to these existing infrastructures could more effectively accelerate new projects, rather than having to pool many different resources (networks, talent, funds, expertise, reputation, track-record, etc.) together by oneself (with a smaller team).
I said this elsewhere but I’ll repeat myself: I think it’s fantastic that you took the time to write this up (and erred on the side of posting) and in doing this adding transparency to the LT/x-risk entrepreneurship community which seems at times impenetrable.