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Nada, I am already told enough, more than I can handle.
I wish more people would just tell me to relax and have some fun (people with arguments in favor of doing so).
Existential risk mitigation. I don't do it because of uncertainty and psychological distress caused by the fear of having no more time to do what I would like to do based on naive introspection. And I am too selfish to give away large amounts of money that I fear I might need for my self at some point
Be more focused on improving my education. I am too distracted by all the shiny and interesting things out there, by problems I can't solve and real life needs.
There are many irrational examples here. I am told not to care so much about my health and actually have some fun by drinking lots of alcohol. I don't drink alcohol because of health concerns but also because I simply don't like it.
Would you be happy if someone told you to do something fun in a way which, in your eyes, is likely to reduce existential risk?
Yes. That would probably mean that I could either learn something by reducing existential risks or that it wouldn't eat up all too much resources.
Try starting a German meetup group.
You can learn things with them, and do other fun things.
If you get people into the group who haven't been exposed to ideas, but would be interested in existential risk mitigation then you have a non-zero impact. If you work with them to try to make money and donate some of that, then you will donate without eating up too much resources.
(That being said, I do think that your sending letters to AI researchers is providing probably-helpful information)