It’s practically impossible to exactly predict how future technology will shape out, but intuitively I think if there’s ANY significant chance whatsoever of blockchain being the next internet, or anything close, it would be massively positive EV to try to shape that for the better. Imagine if an EA person was the head of Facebook for example? It could be absolutely huge, even if simply from an earning to give perspective.
With all the uncertainty here and the obviousness of other causes, I don’t know if this should be high on the list of all priorities for EAs at large, but it makes sense to me at least to have at least 1 person pursuing this.
I also very much agree with your read of the crypto community being ripe for EA ideas. It’s already evident from a lot of the vocal people in the space that many of them care about the global poor. I assume however that many of them have not heard of AMF yet for example, so spreading those ideas could be really impactful imo.
It’s practically impossible to exactly predict how future technology will shape out, but intuitively I think if there’s ANY significant chance whatsoever of blockchain being the next internet, or anything close, it would be massively positive EV to try to shape that for the better. Imagine if an EA person was the head of Facebook for example? It could be absolutely huge, even if simply from an earning to give perspective.
With all the uncertainty here and the obviousness of other causes, I don’t know if this should be high on the list of all priorities for EAs at large, but it makes sense to me at least to have at least 1 person pursuing this.
I also very much agree with your read of the crypto community being ripe for EA ideas. It’s already evident from a lot of the vocal people in the space that many of them care about the global poor. I assume however that many of them have not heard of AMF yet for example, so spreading those ideas could be really impactful imo.