One of the devices not mentioned in my comment below is the utility of LessWrong as a filter/proxy for values. This can work but has a weakness because institutional literacy and intellectual honesty isn’t at the right aesthetic. You’ve demonstrated that with your post and your comment, which is poetic.
I know someone who has been trying to work on the problem (which isn’t very well elaborated on in your post) with sort of four arms:
Show, not tell, instances of the issue you worry about to increase literacy about it (without getting defunded)
Show, not tell, issues with intellectual honesty and subcultures (without getting defunded)
Setup institutions and mechanisms to solve the issue
Increase literacy about the design of EA and how funding is decided
It turns out this project is pretty hard.
The money thing itself isn’t that hard. “Meta-AI” stuff in business is everywhere. What’s tricky is showing not telling, and handling the cause area activism/proxy and consequent issues. If you’re trying to stand in multiple cause areas, which is necessary, it’s an absurd situation right now and unfair to work in.
One of the devices not mentioned in my comment below is the utility of LessWrong as a filter/proxy for values. This can work but has a weakness because institutional literacy and intellectual honesty isn’t at the right aesthetic. You’ve demonstrated that with your post and your comment, which is poetic.
I know someone who has been trying to work on the problem (which isn’t very well elaborated on in your post) with sort of four arms:
Show, not tell, instances of the issue you worry about to increase literacy about it (without getting defunded)
Show, not tell, issues with intellectual honesty and subcultures (without getting defunded)
Setup institutions and mechanisms to solve the issue
Increase literacy about the design of EA and how funding is decided
It turns out this project is pretty hard.
The money thing itself isn’t that hard. “Meta-AI” stuff in business is everywhere. What’s tricky is showing not telling, and handling the cause area activism/proxy and consequent issues. If you’re trying to stand in multiple cause areas, which is necessary, it’s an absurd situation right now and unfair to work in.