(Apologies for the late reply!) For now, my goal is to write something that interested, motivated nontechnical people can follow—the focus is on the content being followable rather than on distribution. I’ve tried to achieve this mostly via nontechnical beta (and alpha) readers.
Doing this gives me something I can send to people when I want them to understand where I’m coming from, and it also helps me clarify my own thoughts (I tend to trust ideas more when I can explain them to an outsider, and I think that getting to that point helps me get clear on which are the major high-level points I’m hanging my hat on when deciding what to do). I think there’s also potential for this work to reach highly motivated but nontechnical people who are better at communication and distribution than I am (and have seen some of this happening).
I have the impression that these posts are pretty widely read in the EA community and at some AI labs, and have raised understanding and concern about misalignment to some degree.
I may explore more aggressive promotion in the future, but I’m not doing so now.
I’m curious how you’re trying to reach such an audience, and what their reactions have been.
(Apologies for the late reply!) For now, my goal is to write something that interested, motivated nontechnical people can follow—the focus is on the content being followable rather than on distribution. I’ve tried to achieve this mostly via nontechnical beta (and alpha) readers.
Doing this gives me something I can send to people when I want them to understand where I’m coming from, and it also helps me clarify my own thoughts (I tend to trust ideas more when I can explain them to an outsider, and I think that getting to that point helps me get clear on which are the major high-level points I’m hanging my hat on when deciding what to do). I think there’s also potential for this work to reach highly motivated but nontechnical people who are better at communication and distribution than I am (and have seen some of this happening).
I have the impression that these posts are pretty widely read in the EA community and at some AI labs, and have raised understanding and concern about misalignment to some degree.
I may explore more aggressive promotion in the future, but I’m not doing so now.