I wanted to highlight this opportunity on the forum since there aren’t many longtermism and existential-risk focused research/internship opportunities this summer for junior researchers
I also think this is an important problem, I’m glad SERI’s program is helping fill that gap, and I’ve encouraged several people to check it out (in addition to being one of the mentors myself).
But I also usually encourage people to check out several other things, both because there may be some people who are a better fit for those than for SERI’s program and because people usually need to apply to many things in order to get into one. So in a similar spirit, readers of this post might want to check out the programs listed here. The rest of that post might also be useful to such people.
(Just in case it wasn’t sufficiently obvious: I really do also encourage people to strongly consider applying to SERI’s program, and I really appreciate the work SERI is doing!)
I also think this is an important problem, I’m glad SERI’s program is helping fill that gap, and I’ve encouraged several people to check it out (in addition to being one of the mentors myself).
But I also usually encourage people to check out several other things, both because there may be some people who are a better fit for those than for SERI’s program and because people usually need to apply to many things in order to get into one. So in a similar spirit, readers of this post might want to check out the programs listed here. The rest of that post might also be useful to such people.
(Just in case it wasn’t sufficiently obvious: I really do also encourage people to strongly consider applying to SERI’s program, and I really appreciate the work SERI is doing!)