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Chris Leong

Organiser @ AI Safety Australia and NZ
6810 karmaJoined Sydney NSW, Australia

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Currently doing local AI safety Movement Building in Australia and NZ.

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Your AI timelines would likely be an important factor here.

This is amazing. I expect this to noticably increase the number of links included in articles.

Does scaling make sense with a principles-first strategy? My intuition would be that with a principles-first strategy it makes more sense to focus on quality over quantity.

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I think a key crux here is whether you think AI timelines are short or long. If they're short, there's more pressure to focus on immediately applicable work. If they're long, then there's more benefit to having philosophers develop ideas which gradually trickle down.

Someone really needs to make Asterisk meetup groups a thing.

One thing that is very confusing to me here: the experiment comparing entrepreneurs in charity entrepreneurship and random folk in in Kenya. 

It seems pretty obvious to me that the value of treating a charity entrepreneur is at least a hundred or a thousand times greater than treating a random person. So I don't know why you would compare the two, given that if it works for the entrepreneurs at all, it'd be clearly higher impact. Assuming it works for the entrepreneurs, you're not going to get an effect a hundred or a thousand times greater for the Kenyans.

Ironically, I think one of the best ways to address this is more movement building. Lots of groups provide professional training to their movement builders and more of this (in terms of AI/AI safety knowledge) would reduce the chance that someone who could and wants to do technical work gets stuck in a community building role.

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