It seems unlikely to me that funding you or someone else to try to gain these skill would be a competitive grant application. In general it makes sense for individual to self-finance skills that they can use broadly and for employer to finance more narrowly useful skills. EAs sometime finance technical alignment upskilling, but that it because they want to subsidize the entire field; there is not similar argument for supporting ‘mediation’ as a field.
Huh, sounds plausible. At the same time, it has me wonder whether EA should imitate the corporate world less here. Wouldn’t “Would it be high EV to have an EA insider with competence in this?” be a more relevant question than “Is this something that’s already common and generally useful in the non-EA world?”
I guess the heuristic you point at is for avoiding vultures?
It seems unlikely to me that funding you or someone else to try to gain these skill would be a competitive grant application. In general it makes sense for individual to self-finance skills that they can use broadly and for employer to finance more narrowly useful skills. EAs sometime finance technical alignment upskilling, but that it because they want to subsidize the entire field; there is not similar argument for supporting ‘mediation’ as a field.
Huh, sounds plausible. At the same time, it has me wonder whether EA should imitate the corporate world less here. Wouldn’t “Would it be high EV to have an EA insider with competence in this?” be a more relevant question than “Is this something that’s already common and generally useful in the non-EA world?”
I guess the heuristic you point at is for avoiding vultures?