It’s likely you’ll address this in future posts, but I’m curious now. To me it seems like CFAR played a very important role in attracting people to the bay. “Come for the rationality, stay for the x-risk.” I have a feeling that with this pivot it’ll be harder to attract people to the community. What are your thoughts on that?
That seems fine to me as long as the people who do get attracted are selected harder for being relevant to AI safety; arguably this would be an improvement.
I’m not sure how much of this was CFAR and x-risk vs. programming and autism. Certainly a lot of the people at the SF meetup were not CFARniks based on my completely unscientific examination of my memory. The community’s survival and growth is secondary to X-risk solving now, even if before the goal was to make a community devoted to these arts.
It’s likely you’ll address this in future posts, but I’m curious now. To me it seems like CFAR played a very important role in attracting people to the bay. “Come for the rationality, stay for the x-risk.” I have a feeling that with this pivot it’ll be harder to attract people to the community. What are your thoughts on that?
That seems fine to me as long as the people who do get attracted are selected harder for being relevant to AI safety; arguably this would be an improvement.
I’m not sure how much of this was CFAR and x-risk vs. programming and autism. Certainly a lot of the people at the SF meetup were not CFARniks based on my completely unscientific examination of my memory. The community’s survival and growth is secondary to X-risk solving now, even if before the goal was to make a community devoted to these arts.