I didn’t mean to imply that the cost will be trivial. The cost will either be a significant reduction in communication between AI safety researchers who are far apart (which I agree harms our x-risk reduction efforts), or a resource cost paid by a collaboration of AI safety researchers and EAs with a variety of skillsets to create the infrastructure and institutions needed for secure AI safety research norms. The latter is what I had in mind, and it probably cannot be a decentralized effort like “don’t use Google Docs or gmail.”
I didn’t mean to imply that the cost will be trivial. The cost will either be a significant reduction in communication between AI safety researchers who are far apart (which I agree harms our x-risk reduction efforts), or a resource cost paid by a collaboration of AI safety researchers and EAs with a variety of skillsets to create the infrastructure and institutions needed for secure AI safety research norms. The latter is what I had in mind, and it probably cannot be a decentralized effort like “don’t use Google Docs or gmail.”