Skill mastery often has these attributes: Repeated deliberate practice.“Thinking about it in the shower”, i.e. thinking about it without much effort.“Gears-level understanding”, i.e. knowing the foundations of the skill and understanding how all the pieces relate.
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when thinking about how to get more people to be EA-aligned, here are some good questions to ask: Can we build structures which enable repeated deliberate practice of EA? Good examples are intro fellowships, book recommendations, and club meetings. Are there more? Can we get people to “think about EA in the shower”? One way to improve this could be to provide better-written reading materials which pose questions which are amenable to shower thoughts. Can we encourage more “gears-level understanding” of EA concepts? For example, emphasize the reasons behind x-risk calculations rather than their conclusions.
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Repeating talking points: when discussing EA topics with a skeptical non-EA, don’t repeat standard EA talking points if they’re not resonating.
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you can have a more intellectually honest conversation by first understanding what their current worldview and model of AI is, and building off of this.
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- [note::Also applies to any other conversation where there's a potentially significant difference in the knowledge level between two people on a certain topic.]