In other words: It seems maybe negative to encourage many people to enter a race, on many different competing “teams”, if you want the entire field to move slowly, no?
When I talk to people, I sometimes explicitly say that this is a way of thinking that I hope most people WON’T use.
What do you think about the effect of many people (EAs) joining top AI labs—on the race dynamics between those labs?
Hard for me to make up my mind here
Adding [edit] :
This seems especially important as you’re advising many people to consider entering the field, where one of the reasons to do it is “Moving faster could reduce the risk that AI projects that are less cautious than the existing ones can enter the field.” (but you’re sending people to many different orgs).
In other words: It seems maybe negative to encourage many people to enter a race, on many different competing “teams”, if you want the entire field to move slowly, no?
When I talk to people, I sometimes explicitly say that this is a way of thinking that I hope most people WON’T use.