Lots of EA orgs say they struggle to hire for ops, marketing and comms. But when they post listings for these roles the salaries are often much lower than what they offer for research and engineering, which they generally find easier to fill. My guess is that orgs are just benchmarking against normal market rates for these roles. But the EA labour market is very different to the normal labour market, if these roles are undersupplied inside EA, I think orgs should be willing to pay more for them.
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@Charles Kenny do you think emigration is good for basically every country or do you think it is mostly beneficial for low-income countries and could be bad for high-income countries?
@Lauren Gilbert what most suprised you about starting a new magazine? Was it harder or easier than expected?
wow, this is extremely cool Lauren!
I agree with this, the link to between the pie chart and the clock isn’t very obvious to me
Thanks for writing this Michelle, I found it really moving
What have you learnt about running organisations and managing from running Redwood?
In the last episode you talk about how you were considering shutting down Redwood and joining labs. Why were you initially considering it and why did you eventually decide against it?
This is so cool! Very excited to see what you guys achieve
In Development, a global development-focused magazine founded by Lauren Gilbert, has just opened their first call for pitches. They are looking for 2-4k word stories about things happening in the developing world. They’re especially excited about pitches from people living in low and middle income countries. They pay 2k USD per article, submissions close Jan 12. More info here
I don’t know anyone there but the 30M figure came from their website https://macroscopic.org/grants
Was there any reason for omitting Macroscopic Ventures? They give on the order of 30M/per year
Who is the intended audience for the book? Is there something your hoping to achieve with the book or did you just want to write a book?
In this book you interview lots of people in AI. As somewhat of an outsider, do you have any views on things you think the AI safety community is wrong about, ideas that seem far-fetched, or things they should be focusing more on?
Do you think religion is an important part of British culture and heritage? Could I be a genuine Anglofuturist as an atheist?
Someone told me you don’t like reading books, is that correct? If so, what made you want to write a book regardless?
How did you end up interested in both Effective Altruism and Anglofuturism? They seem like pretty different communities. What are some things you think EA gets wrong and Anglofuturism gets right and vice versa?
What advice would you have for someone looking to get into science communication? What are the main mistakes you see?
One example
My impression is often they have a high bar and usually would like both having past experience in those fields and having a lot of context on EA/AI Safety + mission driven