I am doing a research internship in Ottawa right now (w/ the Canadian federal govt), so it might be feasible for me to request to participate in person. However, I'm not sure that I can state the case well without some prior preparation and guidance. 
If you (or another qualified person reading this) think it is worth the effort, I'd like to discuss about if I should request to speak and how to prepare if I do.

I agree that people generally dislike social media, or at least that there is a decent segment of people who are vocal about disliking social media. I dislike social media and mostly don't use it myself.

Are you guessing that people consciously want to make it more annoying for everyone, or subconsciously? I don't have that impression (either way) and I'd be interested if you have anything you can point me to for evidence. 

Instead my impression is that people are concerned about children in particular, because it is reasonable to expect that social media is especially harmful when your brain is less developed and when youre in your prime "learning to be literate" time. 

With all the discussion of age restrictions on social media, I wrote down a rough idea of how we could do age restrictions much more effectively than the current proposals. It's not typical LessWrong content but I'd still love any feedback from the LW community.
https://kaleb.ruscitti.ca/2026/01/18/private-age-verification.html
 

>I'm not saying it's zero percent a shitpost, but the polarization that it induces is intentional.

As an attendee of Jenn's meetups, I remember being skeptical about attending rat meetups and comforted by the website's vibe. Therefore I can attest that this does have some effect. It is interesting to find out that this was intentional!

Is one takeaway of your post that we should consider current safety research as more about training human researchers than about the actual knowledge obtained from the research?

Your categories are not essentially gendered, although I understand why we feel that way. For example, in your travel-packing example my wife would be considered rugged while I would be considered elegant, under your definitions. I also think that in traditional Chinese culture, both of your definitions would be considered masculine. (Sorry women, I guess you get nothing lol)

I also think that we apply these strategies unequally in different parts of our lives. I'd guess if you have to give a research talk at a conference, you'd take an 'elegant' approach of "let me prepare my talk well and try to anticipate possible questions the audience will have" instead of "let me do the minimal prep and then just power through any technical difficulties or difficult questions'. 

Maybe our gender socialization leads us to favour different strategies in different situations along gendered lines?

In the leftist political sphere, this distinction is captured by the names "reformers" vs "revolutionaries", and the argument about which approach to take has been going on forever. 

I believe it would be worthwhile for us to look at some of those arguments and see if previous thinkers have new (to us) perspectives that can be informative about AI safety approaches. 

I believe the implication of decrying something as populist is that it would not actually be good for the masses. So a populist promise is one that the masses want and think will be good for them, but in actuality would be bad for them. Then a populist politician is one that promises popular policies regardless of whether they will be net good or bad.

I think whether or not someone considers populism bad is downstream of whether or not they think the masses can accurately assess what would be good for them.

If I understand your presentation correctly, it sounds like you think this new era of FE will mostly be net negative. Is that right, or have I misunderstood you? 

If you do think it will be net negative, do you feel like there is any action society should be taking to rein in the consequences? Your key takeaways section suggests that we should just brace for the wave.

I am a twenty-something mathematics researcher, so I am your target audience. Have you been making unprecedented work on your projects? Or can you point me to others that have? I am pretty happy to implement AI tools into my workflow, but I'd guess they speed up my output by only 1.25x at best. I'd be surprised to learn of people getting the 5x+ speedup you're suggesting and if they are then I'd like to know how they do it.