Hi Connor. First, I appreciate your work, and your content has significantly impacted me, so thank you.

I do have one complaint, though. As a technical guy, I thought my role in this saving-humanity project would be to do math of AI safety that would end up robust enough to scale to smarter-than-human AI. I knew from the beginning that governance is more important, but I didn’t think I had a “comparative advantage” (I know you hate this expression). After listening to your "ASI survival handbook" lecture, I started to doubt that position.

I don’t know what else I’m supposed to do though. I applied to the “exceptional talent” on ControlAI’s website, but they (understandably, since they have lots of applicants) ignored me. Do I have to just be “one more protester”, even though I’m not a citizen of any relevant country? Should I just earn-to-give to AI governance organisations? I guess it’s a bit selfish to ask for this kind of personal career advice, and the reply “just be agentic about it” would be totally fair, but still.