Benjamin Todd
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
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But I do think there is like an argument for...
having quite a bit of urgency, especially compared to 10 years ago when we thought timelines were much longer.
Well, I mean, the biggest one is just which of these three scenarios, how likely you think each one is.
Yeah, and then it would just be, do you think these short scenarios are much more neglected, so much higher leverage?
Mm-hmm.
And then how much could you increase your ability to help by, say, focusing more on career capital for a while?
So in general, younger people, there's a good prior that they should focus on these slightly more medium-term scenarios.
But if you're already established and it's harder to increase your career capital as much, then you can focus a lot on just the short scenarios.
To step back one step further, the aim of the book is to give you these general purpose frameworks that anyone can use to figure out which career is best for them, no matter their view on causes.
I also put my own best guesses
because I think it's interesting to show the application of the framework and people find it helpful.
But that's actually a relatively small part of the material.
So I think it should be very useful for people who aren't interested in AI.
On the questions about how you can help, even if you don't feel that interested in AI right now, I think there's a few things to say about that.
One is like, I think, you know, historically it's easy to feel like, well, okay, AI means like the alignment challenge and we just need like technical researchers solving that challenge.
And there's not that much else that other people can do.
But I really want to think it's not just about AI misalignment.
What we're facing more is something like
the complete transformation of every aspect of society.
It's like the industrial revolution, but happening 10 times faster, going to some place that we don't yet know.
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