If someone is interested in learning about longtermism and AI risk, what do you send them? Imagine they're already curious or have heard a surface-level pitch. What followup links do you send them? How do you personalize depending on the person's background or interests?
Introducing new people to EA ideas seems very important, and quite difficult. I'd be interested in any other ideas about how to do so well.
Thanks to Ben_West for asking this question in another thread, and Pablo_Stafforini for suggesting this post.
Thanks for asking this question.
I think a good starting place would likely be the EA Hub's "reading lists" for particular cause areas, including longtermism and AI safety (as well as biorisk, nuclear security, and climate change). And if someone has ideas of great resources to use which aren't shown in those reading lists, you can comment to add them there, so that we can all benefit from those centralised directories of links.
But those reading lists just provide lists of options, which one would then have to narrow down to a handful of links that suit the particular context and purpose. That second step can be tricky, and I don't have anything especially useful to say there, unfortunately.