Something that "feels" worth doing to me, even if timelines eventually make it irrelevant, would be starting an independent org to research/verify the claims of embryo selection companies. I think by default there's going to be a lot of bullshit, and people are going to use that bullshit as an excuse to call for regulation or a shutdown. An independent org might also encourage people who were otherwise skeptical of this technology to use it.
I mean I agree, but I just think this is insufficient worldview hedging. What if AGI takes another sixty years?
-3Seth Herd
That's like a 1% chance. It seems far more likely that insufficient effort on alignment will have us all dead long before then.
There's vastly too little effort on alignment and too much on diversified good works in the world at this point. That may be another neglected area that rationalist would be particularly likely to address, but it seems like any way you do the math the EV is going to be way higher on alignment and related AGI navigation issues.