For sure, it’s hard, and also perhaps the most crucial part if you wanna feel like you’re doing the most effective thing you could be doing.
When I started this process after graduating ~9 months ago, I spent the first ~2 months mainly reading, trying to get a broad general understanding of what’s going on and why. I had already established that I cared the most about preventing extinction scenarios.
It might help simplify to go the Ngo route of batching risks together and identifying the intervention that would mitigate the whole bunch at once.
Personally, it took me ~2 months to come to the conclusion that an international agreement/treaty on red lines might be the single most high EV, reasonable, no-brainer intervention out there. Have explored other options but always returned to this one. Would like to see folks shoot for the moon and honestly try to make something like this happen 2026-2027.
For sure, it’s hard, and also perhaps the most crucial part if you wanna feel like you’re doing the most effective thing you could be doing.
When I started this process after graduating ~9 months ago, I spent the first ~2 months mainly reading, trying to get a broad general understanding of what’s going on and why. I had already established that I cared the most about preventing extinction scenarios.
It might help simplify to go the Ngo route of batching risks together and identifying the intervention that would mitigate the whole bunch at once.
Personally, it took me ~2 months to come to the conclusion that an international agreement/treaty on red lines might be the single most high EV, reasonable, no-brainer intervention out there. Have explored other options but always returned to this one. Would like to see folks shoot for the moon and honestly try to make something like this happen 2026-2027.