I wouldn’t really frame it as us wanting more folk to take AI safety courses as I think quality is more important than quantity. Instead, I would personally focus more on a) local knowledge about people’s potential b) building up viable local scenes for people to grow/develop in.
Regarding marketing, I’d be much more interested in niche marketing targeting people who are top of the distribution in some way than just increasing numbers due to decreasing marginal returns.
I definitely agree that quality is more important than quantity; perhaps I could have made that clearer. My point is that with marketing, you can get a lot of talented people. If you are running a general course, you probably couldn’t only attract people who are in the 99th percentile, but you will get some, which makes the whole endeavour worth it (you can also try your best to filter out less promising people depending on your bar and ability to take participants)
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I wouldn’t really frame it as us wanting more folk to take AI safety courses as I think quality is more important than quantity. Instead, I would personally focus more on a) local knowledge about people’s potential b) building up viable local scenes for people to grow/develop in.
Regarding marketing, I’d be much more interested in niche marketing targeting people who are top of the distribution in some way than just increasing numbers due to decreasing marginal returns.
I definitely agree that quality is more important than quantity; perhaps I could have made that clearer. My point is that with marketing, you can get a lot of talented people. If you are running a general course, you probably couldn’t only attract people who are in the 99th percentile, but you will get some, which makes the whole endeavour worth it (you can also try your best to filter out less promising people depending on your bar and ability to take participants)