Ah, I see. I did interpret the framing around “net positive” to be largely around normal companies. It’s IMO relatively easy to be net-positive, since all you need to do is to avoid harm in expectation and help in any way whatsoever, which my guess is almost any technology startup that doesn’t accelerate things, but has reasonable people at the helm, can achieve.
When we are talking more about “how to make a safety-focused company that is substantially positive on safety?”, that is a very different question in my mind.
Nod, but fwiw if you don’t have a cached answer, I am interested in you spending like 15 minutes thinking through whether there exist startup-centric approaches to helping with x-risk that are good.
Ah, I see. I did interpret the framing around “net positive” to be largely around normal companies. It’s IMO relatively easy to be net-positive, since all you need to do is to avoid harm in expectation and help in any way whatsoever, which my guess is almost any technology startup that doesn’t accelerate things, but has reasonable people at the helm, can achieve.
When we are talking more about “how to make a safety-focused company that is substantially positive on safety?”, that is a very different question in my mind.
Nod, but fwiw if you don’t have a cached answer, I am interested in you spending like 15 minutes thinking through whether there exist startup-centric approaches to helping with x-risk that are good.