I would have said no a year ago, but a lot of people are now much more interested in AIS. I think there’s a lot of potential for much more funding coming in. The binary greedy vs. non-greedy human sounds strange to me. What I can say is many EA types have the mentality of neglectedness, how they can individually have the most impact, etc. Many EAs would probably say they wouldn’t be working on the things they were working on if enough other people were. This is great in isolation, and a mentality I usually hold, but it does have problems. The “greedy” humans have the mentality of “someone else is going to do this, I want to get there first.” Individually, this doesn’t change much. But if you multiple people doing this, you get people competing with each other, and usually they push each other to get to the outcome faster.
Yes. But everyone’s pushing hard on capabilities right now anyway. This has always been a problem in AIS. But we can’t really do anything without running into this risk. But I think there’s a big difference between employees at an org, and people starting orgs. I’d be fine with existing orgs attracting talent the way I mentioned, but I wouldn’t want to throw money at someone (who’s only interested in status) to start their own org. It’s certainly tricky. Like, I can imagine how the leaders of an org can slowly get usurped. Holding current leaders in AIS in prestige can possibly mitigate the risk, where people with senior status in the field can function as “gatekeepers”. Like, a young physicist who wants to gain clout, only for the sake of their own status, is still going to have to deal with senior members in the field who might call bs. If enough senior members call bs, that person loses status.
I would have said no a year ago, but a lot of people are now much more interested in AIS. I think there’s a lot of potential for much more funding coming in. The binary greedy vs. non-greedy human sounds strange to me. What I can say is many EA types have the mentality of neglectedness, how they can individually have the most impact, etc. Many EAs would probably say they wouldn’t be working on the things they were working on if enough other people were. This is great in isolation, and a mentality I usually hold, but it does have problems. The “greedy” humans have the mentality of “someone else is going to do this, I want to get there first.” Individually, this doesn’t change much. But if you multiple people doing this, you get people competing with each other, and usually they push each other to get to the outcome faster.
Yes. But everyone’s pushing hard on capabilities right now anyway. This has always been a problem in AIS. But we can’t really do anything without running into this risk. But I think there’s a big difference between employees at an org, and people starting orgs. I’d be fine with existing orgs attracting talent the way I mentioned, but I wouldn’t want to throw money at someone (who’s only interested in status) to start their own org. It’s certainly tricky. Like, I can imagine how the leaders of an org can slowly get usurped. Holding current leaders in AIS in prestige can possibly mitigate the risk, where people with senior status in the field can function as “gatekeepers”. Like, a young physicist who wants to gain clout, only for the sake of their own status, is still going to have to deal with senior members in the field who might call bs. If enough senior members call bs, that person loses status.