Nice to see this! I remember being surprised a few years back that nobody in EA besides Drexler was talking about APM, so it’s nice to see a formal public writeup clarifying what’s going on with it. I’m leery of infohazards here, but conditional on it being reasonable to publish such an article at all, this seems like a solid version of that article.
Re: key organizations, a few thoughts:
FHI seems like another natural place, since Drexler’s there and (I assume) they’re pretty open to hosting other people working on APM.
I would be curious if Ben Snodin has a take on whether Rethink Priorities is a particularly good place to work, relative to e.g. being an independent researcher or working at FHI. RP’s General Longtermism team could host work on APM risk, and proximity to Ben is useful, but AFAIK Ben is not currently doing APM-related work and doesn’t particularly plan to.
Nice to see this! I remember being surprised a few years back that nobody in EA besides Drexler was talking about APM, so it’s nice to see a formal public writeup clarifying what’s going on with it. I’m leery of infohazards here, but conditional on it being reasonable to publish such an article at all, this seems like a solid version of that article.
Re: key organizations, a few thoughts:
FHI seems like another natural place, since Drexler’s there and (I assume) they’re pretty open to hosting other people working on APM.
I would be curious if Ben Snodin has a take on whether Rethink Priorities is a particularly good place to work, relative to e.g. being an independent researcher or working at FHI. RP’s General Longtermism team could host work on APM risk, and proximity to Ben is useful, but AFAIK Ben is not currently doing APM-related work and doesn’t particularly plan to.