Well, incubators and many smaller bets are usually the best approach in this type of situation since you want to black-swan farm, as you say.
This is the approach I’m generally taking right now, similar to the pyramid scheme argument of getting more people to be EA, I think it’s worth mentoring new people on alignment perspectives. So some stuff you could do: 1. Start a local organisation where you help people understand alignment and help them get perspectives. (Note that this only works over a certain quality of thinking but getting this is also a numbers game IMO.) 2. Create and mentor isolated groups of independent communities that develop alignment theories. (You want people to be weird but not too weird, meaning that they should be semi-independent from the larger community) 3. Theoretical alignment conference/competition with proposals optimised for being interesting in weird ways.
I’m trying to do this specifically in the Nordics as I think there are a bunch of smart people here who don’t want to move to the “talent hubs” so my marginal impact might be higher. To be honest, I’m uncertain on how much to focus on this vs. developing more on my personal alignment theories, but I’m a strong pyramid scheme believer. I could however be wrong on this and I would love to hear some more takes on this.
Well, incubators and many smaller bets are usually the best approach in this type of situation since you want to black-swan farm, as you say.
This is the approach I’m generally taking right now, similar to the pyramid scheme argument of getting more people to be EA, I think it’s worth mentoring new people on alignment perspectives.
So some stuff you could do:
1. Start a local organisation where you help people understand alignment and help them get perspectives. (Note that this only works over a certain quality of thinking but getting this is also a numbers game IMO.)
2. Create and mentor isolated groups of independent communities that develop alignment theories. (You want people to be weird but not too weird, meaning that they should be semi-independent from the larger community)
3. Theoretical alignment conference/competition with proposals optimised for being interesting in weird ways.
I’m trying to do this specifically in the Nordics as I think there are a bunch of smart people here who don’t want to move to the “talent hubs” so my marginal impact might be higher. To be honest, I’m uncertain on how much to focus on this vs. developing more on my personal alignment theories, but I’m a strong pyramid scheme believer. I could however be wrong on this and I would love to hear some more takes on this.