EA is neglecting trying to influence non-EA organizations, and this is becoming more detrimental to impact over time.
+1 to this — it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately, and I’m happy you mentioned it.
I’m not convinced the EA community will be able to effectively solve the problems we’re keen on tackling if we mainly rely on a (relatively) small group of people who are unusually receptive to counterintuitive ideas, especially highly technical problems like AI safety. Rather, we’ll need a large coalition of people who can make progress on these sorts of challenges. All else equal, I think we’ve neglected the value of influencing others, even if these folks might not become highly active EAs who attend conferences or whatever.
+1 to this — it’s something I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately, and I’m happy you mentioned it.
I’m not convinced the EA community will be able to effectively solve the problems we’re keen on tackling if we mainly rely on a (relatively) small group of people who are unusually receptive to counterintuitive ideas, especially highly technical problems like AI safety. Rather, we’ll need a large coalition of people who can make progress on these sorts of challenges. All else equal, I think we’ve neglected the value of influencing others, even if these folks might not become highly active EAs who attend conferences or whatever.