Claims / C-9NJWBXWTMM

Analytic

Buying time is worthless if nobody built what the time is for: fund some bets that only pay if the crunch succeeds.

The claim

Crunch-time safety work and long-horizon bets are complements, not rivals: if crunch-time work succeeds it buys time, and the extra time is wasted unless someone spent the crunch building the new ideas and institutions that can use it. So even on short timelines, part of the effort should go to bets that only pay off if the crunch succeeds.

Evidence 3 passages

  • groundsSource document

    Say crunch time efforts work, and we buy 2 more years.

  • groundsSource document

    But we have no new ideas or leads, and have to crunch time harder, until we die.

  • groundsSource document

    So the right allocation is some people on new speculative bets.

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