All of JJ Balisan's Comments + Replies
Programs like the OpenAI Residency may be a good idea. You may also want to consider something like Interning at somewhere like Deepmind, CHAI or Cohere. There is also alot of mentorship in the Eleuther Discord. We are in a time where highly skilled EA aligned engineers are very expensive in both time and money and under shorter timelines it may not make sense for any individual engineer to give up time on a program like this. If something like this didn't exist in 2/3 years time I would be very interested in running a program like this.
To expand slightly: As JJ Balisan notes, ACE was originally called 'Effective Animal Activism', and that's how the acronym 'EAA' was first used in EA circles (if I recall correctly). Over time, people started using 'EAA' to refer to 'effective animal activism' instead, i.e. not the organization itself but any efforts within EA to engage in activism on behalf of non-human animals. Eventually, the term was applied more broadly, to refer to ways of helping animals beyond activism in a narrow sense, and accordingly the 'EAA' acronym acquired the new meaning of...
Thanks, I was unfamiliar with their estimates for the proportion of the community they estimate.
"We estimate there are around 2315 highly engaged EAs and 6500 (90% CI: 4700-10,000) active EAs in the community overall."
https://www.rethinkpriorities.org/blog/2020/6/26/ea-survey-2019-series-how-many-people-are-there-in-the-ea-community
That source also provides some other sources for estimates.
I would just probably tell people to work in another field than explicitly encouraging goodharting their way to trying to having positive impact in an area with extreme variance.