I already felt that focusing on growth was not ideal as a goal and reading this post has tilted me more in this direction.
Growing EA makes it harder to steer the ship due to increased communication and coordination costs and the more attention we focus on growth, the less attention we have to figure out how to reshape EA for the new context.
I suspect that one of the biggest challenges is that opinions on “How do we do the most good?” have bifurcated quite strongly such that people either think the future is determined by AI, in which case many of the traditional EA discussions feel naive or irrelevant, and those who are more skeptical, and who therefore would be frustrated if discussions are too dominated by AI.
This makes it extremely hard to run a program that really hits it out of the park for both groups of people and if you want top-notch people, you need to be trying to hit it out of the park.
I already felt that focusing on growth was not ideal as a goal and reading this post has tilted me more in this direction.
Growing EA makes it harder to steer the ship due to increased communication and coordination costs and the more attention we focus on growth, the less attention we have to figure out how to reshape EA for the new context.
I suspect that one of the biggest challenges is that opinions on “How do we do the most good?” have bifurcated quite strongly such that people either think the future is determined by AI, in which case many of the traditional EA discussions feel naive or irrelevant, and those who are more skeptical, and who therefore would be frustrated if discussions are too dominated by AI.
This makes it extremely hard to run a program that really hits it out of the park for both groups of people and if you want top-notch people, you need to be trying to hit it out of the park.