Before operations it was AI strategy researchers, and before AI strategy researchers it was web developers. At various times it has been EtG, technical AI safety, movement-building, etc. We can’t predict talent shortages precisely in advance, so if you’re a person with a broad skillset, I do think it might make sense to act as flexible human capital and address whatever is currently most needed.
I think I’d go the other way and suggest people focus more on personal fit: i.e. do the thing in which you have greatest comparative advantage relative to the world as a whole, not just to the EA world.
Before operations it was AI strategy researchers, and before AI strategy researchers it was web developers. At various times it has been EtG, technical AI safety, movement-building, etc. We can’t predict talent shortages precisely in advance, so if you’re a person with a broad skillset, I do think it might make sense to act as flexible human capital and address whatever is currently most needed.
I think I’d go the other way and suggest people focus more on personal fit: i.e. do the thing in which you have greatest comparative advantage relative to the world as a whole, not just to the EA world.