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"x-risk-themed" by kave

"x-risk-themed" by kave

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 Sometimes, a friend who works around here, at an x-risk-themed organisation, will think about leaving their job. They’ll ask a group of people “what should I do instead?”. And everyone will chime in with ideas for other x-risk-themed orgs that they could join. A lot of the conversation will be about who's hiring, what the pay is, what the work-life balance is like, or how qualified the person is for the role.

Sometimes the conversation focuses on what will help with x-risk, and where people are dropping the ball. But often, that's not the focus. In those conversations, people seem mostly worried about where they'll thrive. And I think that's often the correct concern.

Most people aren’t in crunch mode, in super short timelines mode; even if their models would license that, I think they don’t know how to do it without throwing their minds away or Pascal's mugging themselves. And if they're playing a longer time horizon game, the plan can't be to run unsustainably forever. People probably make better plans if they’re honest about their limits.

But, given that they're willing to trade off so much impact for fit, I’m surprised that basically no one mentions [...]

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First published:
May 6th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eW7knx6zPSKzFc8iK/x-risk-themed

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