making EA the hub for working on “making the AI transition go well”
I don’t think EA should be THE hub. In an ideal world, loads of people and different groups would be working on these issues. But at the moment, really almost no one is. So the question is whether it’s better if, given that, EA does work on it, and at least some work gets done. I think yes.
(Analogy: was it good or bad that in the earlier days, there was some work on AI alignment, even though that work was almost exclusively done by EA/rationalist types?)
I don’t think EA should be THE hub. In an ideal world, loads of people and different groups would be working on these issues. But at the moment, really almost no one is. So the question is whether it’s better if, given that, EA does work on it, and at least some work gets done. I think yes.
(Analogy: was it good or bad that in the earlier days, there was some work on AI alignment, even though that work was almost exclusively done by EA/rationalist types?)