I am talking to Vael currently thanks to a recommendation from someone else. If there’s other people you know or sources of failed attempts in the past, I’d also appreciate those!
I also agree that a set of really good arguments is great to have but not always sufficient.
Although convincing the top few researchers is important, also convincing the bottom 10,000’s is also important for movement building. The counter argument of “we can’t handle that many people switching careers” is to scale our programs.
Another is just trusting them to figure it out themselves (I want to compare with COVID research, but I’m not sure how well that research went or what incentives there were to make it better or worse), but this isn’t my argument but another’s intuition. I think an additional structure of “we can give quick feedback on your alignment proposal”would help with this.
I really like the window of opportunity idea.
I am talking to Vael currently thanks to a recommendation from someone else. If there’s other people you know or sources of failed attempts in the past, I’d also appreciate those!
I also agree that a set of really good arguments is great to have but not always sufficient.
Although convincing the top few researchers is important, also convincing the bottom 10,000’s is also important for movement building. The counter argument of “we can’t handle that many people switching careers” is to scale our programs.
Another is just trusting them to figure it out themselves (I want to compare with COVID research, but I’m not sure how well that research went or what incentives there were to make it better or worse), but this isn’t my argument but another’s intuition. I think an additional structure of “we can give quick feedback on your alignment proposal”would help with this.