But this just drove home to me how counter-intuitive the cost-effectiveness numbers for AI-safety are compared to other cause areas.
E.g. I expect Dominion to have cost 10-100x less per hour of engagement, and the amount of investment on this forum to not make sense for animal welfare concerns.
Your first sentence might well be true. But the comparison with the Dominion documentary doesn’t seem very relevant. If I consider the primary uses of the forum for animal welfare folks, I expect them to be some combination of a) sharing and critiquing animal-welfare related research and strategy, b) fundraising, and c) hiring.[1]
So the comparison with an animal welfare-related documentary for mass consumption is less apt, and perhaps you should compare with an hour of engagement for animal-welfare related journals (for the research angle) or fundraisers with fairly wealthy[2] animal welfare-interested people.
Though I suppose normal fundraisers are with very wealthy people, and not just fairly wealthy ones? But I imagine EAF onlookers to have a long tail, wealth-wise.
Your first sentence might well be true. But the comparison with the Dominion documentary doesn’t seem very relevant. If I consider the primary uses of the forum for animal welfare folks, I expect them to be some combination of a) sharing and critiquing animal-welfare related research and strategy, b) fundraising, and c) hiring.[1]
So the comparison with an animal welfare-related documentary for mass consumption is less apt, and perhaps you should compare with an hour of engagement for animal-welfare related journals (for the research angle) or fundraisers with fairly wealthy[2] animal welfare-interested people.
Looking at the animal welfare posts on the forum sorted by relevance, I think my summary is roughly true. Feel free to correct me!
Though I suppose normal fundraisers are with very wealthy people, and not just fairly wealthy ones? But I imagine EAF onlookers to have a long tail, wealth-wise.