This all makes sense, and it does seem that people who are launching big projects might benefit from paid emails as a norm. On the other hand, you seem unusually worried about “spamming” people by sending them things it’s pretty plausible they’d be interested in. It would be fairly easy to put at the top of your email something like “If you’re interested in doing AI forecasting, read on; otherwise feel free to ignore this email” which means the cost is something like ~10 seconds per uninterested recipient, which seems reasonable.
On a meta note, I think I felt less positively towards this post than I otherwise would have, because it felt like a call to action (which I hold to high standards) rather than an exploratory poll—e.g. I read the first few bullet points as rhetorical questions. Seems like it was just a phrasing issue; and as an exploratory poll, I think it’s interesting and I’m glad to have had the issue brought to mind :)
This all makes sense, and it does seem that people who are launching big projects might benefit from paid emails as a norm. On the other hand, you seem unusually worried about “spamming” people by sending them things it’s pretty plausible they’d be interested in. It would be fairly easy to put at the top of your email something like “If you’re interested in doing AI forecasting, read on; otherwise feel free to ignore this email” which means the cost is something like ~10 seconds per uninterested recipient, which seems reasonable.
On a meta note, I think I felt less positively towards this post than I otherwise would have, because it felt like a call to action (which I hold to high standards) rather than an exploratory poll—e.g. I read the first few bullet points as rhetorical questions. Seems like it was just a phrasing issue; and as an exploratory poll, I think it’s interesting and I’m glad to have had the issue brought to mind :)