I’m with Racoocoonie and Claude on this one. It’s astounding to argue there are no pools of candidates outside the AI safety community that have experience in fieldbuilding, apart from EA community builders.
The environmental movement has decades(++) of experience in fieldbuilding. The Sierra Club was founded 130 years ago for environmental advocacy—it has chapters in every US state and around 4m members. There are social justice movements, LGBTQI movements, religious movements, labour movements, voter registration movements, health movements and development networks, each with decades of fieldbuilding experience. There are tens of thousands of people working in fieldbuilding and organisation roles within these movements.
All of these people are part of different networks (or ‘pools’, if you prefer). Many of these networks are also present on platforms like linkedin.
However, this is a very niche background, and people who have it are very difficult to find
Honestly, I think it’s not so niche. If it’s so hard to find people then perhaps we’re not looking in the right places?
The other alternative is that we’re quite happy with the pool of people we already have and we dont need to try harder to bring in other fieldbuilders. If that’s the case, let’s not say it’s because those people dont exist, please.
I’m with Racoocoonie and Claude on this one. It’s astounding to argue there are no pools of candidates outside the AI safety community that have experience in fieldbuilding, apart from EA community builders.
The environmental movement has decades(++) of experience in fieldbuilding. The Sierra Club was founded 130 years ago for environmental advocacy—it has chapters in every US state and around 4m members. There are social justice movements, LGBTQI movements, religious movements, labour movements, voter registration movements, health movements and development networks, each with decades of fieldbuilding experience. There are tens of thousands of people working in fieldbuilding and organisation roles within these movements.
All of these people are part of different networks (or ‘pools’, if you prefer). Many of these networks are also present on platforms like linkedin.
Honestly, I think it’s not so niche. If it’s so hard to find people then perhaps we’re not looking in the right places?
The other alternative is that we’re quite happy with the pool of people we already have and we dont need to try harder to bring in other fieldbuilders. If that’s the case, let’s not say it’s because those people dont exist, please.