Greetings. New to LessWrong, but particularly compelled by the discussion of existential risk.
It seems like one of the priorities would be to ease the path for people, once they're aware of existential risk, to move swiftly through doing meta work to doing strategy work and direct work. For myself, once I'd become aware of existential risk as a whole, it became an attractor for a whole range of prior ideas and I had to find a way towards direct work as soon as possible. That's easier said than done.
Yet it seems like the shortest path would be to catalyse prosperous industry around addressing the topic. With... (read more)
Greetings. New to LessWrong, but particularly compelled by the discussion of existential risk.
It seems like one of the priorities would be to ease the path for people, once they're aware of existential risk, to move swiftly through doing meta work to doing strategy work and direct work. For myself, once I'd become aware of existential risk as a whole, it became an attractor for a whole range of prior ideas and I had to find a way towards direct work as soon as possible. That's easier said than done.
Yet it seems like the shortest path would be to catalyse prosperous industry around addressing the topic. With... (read more)