Information abounds on how to prepare for earthquake or similar natural disasters: have pre-packed overnight bags, store extra water on premises, etc. Investing in a few small efforts can result in disproportionately positive outcomes should disaster seek you out.
Can you do the same thing with regards to potential world-ending AI doom scenarios? Timelines get shorter every day, advances are coming faster and faster, and it would seem – dare I say it – rational to actually make personal life changes to prepare your household for what is likely to come.
I have done some initial thinking on this myself, but wanted to provide at least a starting point for ideas and conversation. So... (read 324 more words →)
I only visit the site every month or so and I use All Posts grouped by Weekly to "catch up". It looks like that particular page does not have support for this kind of tag-specific penalty. :/
one would expect to find a lot of opportunities to be funded to do good work.
This reader is a software engineer with over a decade of experience. I'm paid handsomely and live in a remote rural area. I am married with three kids. The idea that my specialized experience of building SaaS products in Scala would somehow port over to AI research seems ludicrous. I am certain I'm cognitively capable enough to contribute to AI research, but I'd be leaving a career where I'm compensated based on my experience for one where I'm starting over anew.
Surely OpenPhil and FTX would not match my current salary in order to start my career over, all while allowing me to remain in my current geography (instead of uprooting my kids from friends and school)? It seems unlikely I'd have such a significant leg up over a recent college graduate with a decent GPA so as to warrant matching my software engineering salary.
This is the first thing I've read set in dath ilan and I think I'd enjoy reading more.
I see the tag wiki lists several other writings in dath ilan, would anyone here care to suggest a reading order for me?