The extent to which a cause is funding constrained doesn’t equal the size of its room for more funding. It’s more to do with how much progress you can gain per unit of money compared to a unit of talent.
Global poverty has large room for more funding, but I still suspect it may be more talent constrained than funding constrained, because a talented person can do a lot more through setting up new nonprofits, policy or research than etg.
I agree MIRI has a funding gap, but all the other xrisk research groups have a lot of funds, and are concerned they may not find sufficiently good researchers to hire. Moreover, there are major donors (e.g. Open Phil) ready to put more funds into AI risk research, but don’t think there’s enough good people available to hire yet.
The extent to which a cause is funding constrained doesn’t equal the size of its room for more funding. It’s more to do with how much progress you can gain per unit of money compared to a unit of talent.
Global poverty has large room for more funding, but I still suspect it may be more talent constrained than funding constrained, because a talented person can do a lot more through setting up new nonprofits, policy or research than etg.
I agree MIRI has a funding gap, but all the other xrisk research groups have a lot of funds, and are concerned they may not find sufficiently good researchers to hire. Moreover, there are major donors (e.g. Open Phil) ready to put more funds into AI risk research, but don’t think there’s enough good people available to hire yet.