My impression is that organisations working on S-risks (what you seem to be concerned about) tend to focus on preventing suffering of digital beings/minds (e.g. CLR). If you agree with this focus, technical computer science knowledge of how digital beings might come to “suffer” seems useful; philosophical understanding of what constitutes suffering would probably be useful too.
Would like to caveat that regardless of the cause you are interested in, almost all organisations would need some expertise in strategy, management, operations, comms etc. If your interests are in such topics, you might do better studying them. Might also want to consider taking advice from 80000 hours!
Came here to suggest talking to 80k hours. +1 on that! Even if you don’t schedule a call with them, they have really high-quality and in-depth guides that you can look through yourself. :)
My impression is that organisations working on S-risks (what you seem to be concerned about) tend to focus on preventing suffering of digital beings/minds (e.g. CLR). If you agree with this focus, technical computer science knowledge of how digital beings might come to “suffer” seems useful; philosophical understanding of what constitutes suffering would probably be useful too.
Would like to caveat that regardless of the cause you are interested in, almost all organisations would need some expertise in strategy, management, operations, comms etc. If your interests are in such topics, you might do better studying them. Might also want to consider taking advice from 80000 hours!
Came here to suggest talking to 80k hours. +1 on that! Even if you don’t schedule a call with them, they have really high-quality and in-depth guides that you can look through yourself. :)
~ Saul
It’s CLR (Centre for Long-Term Risk) that your referring to and thinking of, not CLTR (Centre for Long Term Resilience)
Computer science and/or business focuses may be good for me! I might also schedule a conversation with 80000 hours. Thanks!