It’s not at all clear under this view that it would be worthwhile to pivot your career to AI safety or biorisk, instead of taking the more straightforward route of earning to give to standard near-term interventions.
I’d disagree with this. I think the conversion of money to labour is super inefficient on longtermism, and so this analogy breaks down. Sure, maybe I should donate to the Maximum Impact Fund rather than LTFF. But it’s really hard to usefully convert billions of dollars into useful labour on longtermist stuff. So, as someone who can work on AI Safety, there’s a major inefficiency factor if I pivot to ETG. I think the consensus basically already is that ETG for longtermism is rarely worth it, unless you’re incredibly good at ETG.
I’d disagree with this. I think the conversion of money to labour is super inefficient on longtermism, and so this analogy breaks down. Sure, maybe I should donate to the Maximum Impact Fund rather than LTFF. But it’s really hard to usefully convert billions of dollars into useful labour on longtermist stuff. So, as someone who can work on AI Safety, there’s a major inefficiency factor if I pivot to ETG. I think the consensus basically already is that ETG for longtermism is rarely worth it, unless you’re incredibly good at ETG.