Related, “my own social circle is not worried or knowledgable about AGI”, might it make sense to spend time networking with people working on AI Safety
I don’t think it will help with the social aspect which I’m trying to point at
and getting a feel for needs and opportunities in the area
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What would make it easier to clear the bottleneck of talking to actual users with pain points?
I think it’s best if one person goes do the user research instead of each person like me bothering the AGI researchers (?)
I’m happy to talk to any such person who’ll talk to me and summarize whatever there is for others to follow, if I don’t pick it up myself
e.g. joining discussion groups?
Could be nice actually
Why product work only for meta orgs?
I mean “figure out what AGI researchers need” [which is a “product” task] and help do that [which helps the community, rather than helping the research directly]
Internal prediction markets
I’m in touch with them and basically said “yes”, but they want full time and by default I don’t think I’ll be available, but I’m advancing and checking it
I don’t think it will help with the social aspect which I’m trying to point at
I think it’s best if one person goes do the user research instead of each person like me bothering the AGI researchers (?)
I’m happy to talk to any such person who’ll talk to me and summarize whatever there is for others to follow, if I don’t pick it up myself
Could be nice actually
I mean “figure out what AGI researchers need” [which is a “product” task] and help do that [which helps the community, rather than helping the research directly]
I’m in touch with them and basically said “yes”, but they want full time and by default I don’t think I’ll be available, but I’m advancing and checking it