It turns out that, no, hiring lots of other people is not actually how you win when the problem is hard.
Using money to hire people is only one strategy among many, if it does not work then maybe starting an alignment course at your local university does? Maybe talking to your mayor is useful? what about becoming the mayor? but how would we know since LW mostly does not talk about that?
These are just examples, surely among all the possible strategies we can find a few that are worth doing and give leverage over direct research? (LessWrong itself would be an example). This seems worth exploring.
Using money to hire people is only one strategy among many, if it does not work then maybe starting an alignment course at your local university does? Maybe talking to your mayor is useful? what about becoming the mayor? but how would we know since LW mostly does not talk about that?
These are just examples, surely among all the possible strategies we can find a few that are worth doing and give leverage over direct research? (LessWrong itself would be an example). This seems worth exploring.
There was a post on a university class less than two weeks ago.