Better luck next time

"And the reason EA will be great again is that the best EAs, of which there are many, all want to be EAs. It’s in their bones. If they weren’t staring down the barrel of an intelligence explosion, or if the prospect of transformative AI somehow disappears with relative certainty, they would open their Animal Welfare for Dummies books the next day. Or they’d roll up their sleeves to defend America. Some of them are doing these things now. The point is that the EAs are ready to do what’s right with no fuss and no ego. Believe it or not, that’s what AI safety work entailed just seven or eight years ago."
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"The reader will note that I am not the best of us."
The reader notes that one day you'll have to stop pretending, and grudgingly admit that you are.

"the way we’ll know EA is really winning is when the Oxford crew is wholly eclipsed by a new generation of even more ambitious and clear-thinking altruists"
Amen

You have such a way with words.

Really glad to be able to help, at least a little. As you say, we're in this together. 

Job hunting is an especially difficult time to deal with this. Good luck in your search!

Thanks for this! 

We're less focused on uni-students right now, just because there's a longer lead time from them hearing the content and being able to work on the areas we're highlighting. Having said that, there are obviously also significant advantages of targetting the group - they're particularly flexible in what they work on, and are often keen to learn about different world views. 

We do actually do some putting shorts on instagram! We haven't engaged as much with Tiktok yet, in large part because our team isn't that familiar with the platform. We're interested in experimenting with it in future though! 

Thanks for letting me know your experience with the podcast. I'm sorry you're finding it less valuable right now. To be clear, things like the Ajeya and Hugh White episodes are centrally the kinds of episodes we'll still be putting out a lot of (in fact, we've recorded another episode with Ajeya which we're currently getting towards releasing). We'll likely still do occasional episodes like the Levy and Glennerster ones, but fewer. 

I agree that AI risk is an incredibly large, complex area and that it's going to take a lot more work for us to build out a full understanding of it! 

Thanks for letting us know about your experience with it! 

Yes, length is one of the things we're interested in experimenting with. We've also started putting a bit more work into producing written 'interview in a nutshell' sections on the transcripts, so that people can get the key insights swiftly (or use it to decide whether to listen to the full episode).

Are there particular formats you have in mind? 

If you haven't come across it yet, you might be interested in the work 80k's video team does.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Thanks for the nudge. I agree it seems crucial to try to find things that are actually different to cover - both for the sake of being interesting and more importantly to actually have an impact. I'd love to hear any particular suggestions you have about things that seem underexplored and important to you!