Not at all, happy to add you. One of the surprises I had after doing this (and one of the reasons it was valuable) was in finding that there are multiple people from economics and law who think and write about these issues. Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I wasn’t expecting that.
[edit]: I’m also thinking about contacting just those people who seem a little out of place on a list like this, like the lawyers, and asking them why they ended up in x-risk and whether their background helped significantly. My own cluster of talents would make me a better fit for law school than math graduate school (leaving aside the fact that I just really want to learn some math), but it doesn’t seem like the optimal way of getting into the field.
Forgive my lack of modesty, but Luke wrote about my writings on X-risk here:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/hpt/elites_and_ai_stated_opinions/
James Miller http://sophia.smith.edu/~jdmiller/resume.pdf
Not at all, happy to add you. One of the surprises I had after doing this (and one of the reasons it was valuable) was in finding that there are multiple people from economics and law who think and write about these issues. Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I wasn’t expecting that.
[edit]: I’m also thinking about contacting just those people who seem a little out of place on a list like this, like the lawyers, and asking them why they ended up in x-risk and whether their background helped significantly. My own cluster of talents would make me a better fit for law school than math graduate school (leaving aside the fact that I just really want to learn some math), but it doesn’t seem like the optimal way of getting into the field.