You can get research taste by doing research at all, it doesn’t have to be a PhD. You may argue that PIs have very good research taste that you can learn from. But their taste is geared towards satisfying academic incentives! It might not be good taste for what you care about. As Chris Olah points out, “Your taste is likely very influenced by your research cluster”.
You can get research taste by doing research at all, it doesn’t have to be a PhD. You may argue that PIs have very good research taste that you can learn from. But their taste is geared towards satisfying academic incentives! It might not be good taste for what you care about. As Chris Olah points out, “Your taste is likely very influenced by your research cluster”.
Strong +1 to this. I think I have observed people who have really good academic research taste but really bad EA research taste