Is mild lifelong acne really worse than stunted growth?
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Selected posts to help us answer: How can we do the most good with our resources?
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AI safety needs people everywhere but quickly stated, current talent bottlenecks to me look like:
-- Founders
-- Grantmakers
-- (technical) Research leads
-- Policy entrepreneurs and implementors (which includes a lot of technical work)
-- bets in international coordination and/or cooperation
-- All manner of supporting talent -- program leads, ops proper, public outreach, content creators, comms
Most sought-after qualities for talent are:
-- context, mission alignment, domain understanding, sophisticated views on AI strategy and threat modelling etc.
-- "good judgement", "sound epistemics", "reasoning transparency" and other similar ideas/meta-skills from the EA/rationalist cannon
-- a willingness to get shit done/bias for action (rather than be in learning mode, or people who need a lot of management and oversight, or folks with too many preferences/constraints)
-- low ego, similar to above
-- ambitious folks, since they would be really trying to be their own managers, take on bigger projects, grow themselves and their teams etc.
Finally, even having these, it's not enough to just claim to have these; job-seekers mainly trip up in being able to demonstrate and be legible about having them.