a Christian EA I heard about recently who lives in a van on the campus of the tech company he works for, giving away everything above $3000 per year
Will this person please give an in-depth interview on some podcast? Could be anonymous if desired.
Very old guide, maybe a tiny bit helpful: How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup Group.
Very minor note, but I love that you included "practice the virtue of silence" in your list.
It's funny, I've done this so many times (including commenting on others' docs of this sort) that I sort-of forgot that not everyone does this regularly.
An important point here is that if you're considering this move, there's a decent/good chance you'll be able to find career transition funding so that you can have 3-12mo of runway during which you can full-time talk to people, read lots of stuff, apply to lots of things, etc. after you quit your job, so that you don't have to burn through much or any of your savings while trying to make the transition work.
It's a fair question. Technically speaking, of course progress can be more incremental, and some small pieces can be built on with other small pieces. Ultimately that's what happened with Khan's series of papers on the semiconductor supply chain and export control options. But in my opinion that kind of thing almost never really happens successfully when it's different authors building on each other's MVPs (minimum viable papers) rather than a single author or team building out a sorta-comprehensive picture of the question they're studying, with all the context and tacit knowledge they've built up from the earlier papers carrying over to how they approach the later papers.
It just means "pages."
Huge +1 to this post! A few reflections:
See also posts tagged with scalably using labor.
Nunn-Lugar; see quick summary here: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/ai-governance-grantmaking