LW4EA: Some cruxes on impactful alternatives to AI policy work

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Written by LW user Richard_Ngo.

This is part of LessWrong for EA, a LessWrong repost & low-commitment discussion group (inspired by this comment). Each week I will revive a highly upvoted, EA-relevant post from the LessWrong Archives, more or less at random

Excerpt from the post:

Ben Pace and I (Richard Ngo) recently did a public double crux at the Berkeley REACH on how valuable it is for people to go into AI policy and strategy work: I was optimistic and Ben was pessimistic. During the actual event, we didn’t come anywhere near to finding a double crux on that issue. But after a lot of subsequent discussion, we’ve come up with some more general cruxes about where impact comes from.

I found Ben’s model of how to have impact very interesting, and so in this post I’ve tried to explain it, along with my disagreements. Ben liked the goal of writing up a rough summary of our positions and having further discussion in the comments, so while he edited it somewhat he doesn’t at all think that it’s a perfect argument, and it’s not what he’d write if he spent 10 hours on it. He endorsed the wording of the cruxes as broadly accurate. (Full post on LW)

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