In hindsight, I’m a bit baffled that field-building wasn’t our main focus this entire time.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the implicit thought process here is something like:
I’m a smart computer guy, and this looks like a really important technical problem! Therefore, I should help out by doing what I’m best at, which is writing software and mathematical proofs!
I’m not really one of those management-type community organizers, so I’ll leave that part of the problem to someone else.
The problem being, of course, that smart technical people are way more likely to be convinced by x-risk arguments in the first place than management-type people, so if the nerds stay within their comfort zone, very little field-building will ever get done.
Great post!
I have a sneaking suspicion that the implicit thought process here is something like:
The problem being, of course, that smart technical people are way more likely to be convinced by x-risk arguments in the first place than management-type people, so if the nerds stay within their comfort zone, very little field-building will ever get done.
I have a pretty confident understanding that that is what happened, not a sneaking suspicion.