A few questions that you might find helpful for thinking this through:
• What are your AI timelines? • Even if you think AI will arrive by X, perhaps you’ll target a timeline of Y-Z years because you think you’re unlikely to be able to make a contribution by X • What agendas are you most optimistic about? Do you think none of these are promising and what we need are outside ideas? What skills would you require to work on these agendas? • Are you likely to be the kind of person who creates their own agenda or contributes to someone else’s? • How enthusiastic are you about these subjects? Are you likely to be any good at them? Many people make a contribution without using things outside of computer science, but sometimes it takes a person with outside knowledge to really push things forward to the next level.
A few questions that you might find helpful for thinking this through:
• What are your AI timelines?
• Even if you think AI will arrive by X, perhaps you’ll target a timeline of Y-Z years because you think you’re unlikely to be able to make a contribution by X
• What agendas are you most optimistic about? Do you think none of these are promising and what we need are outside ideas? What skills would you require to work on these agendas?
• Are you likely to be the kind of person who creates their own agenda or contributes to someone else’s?
• How enthusiastic are you about these subjects? Are you likely to be any good at them? Many people make a contribution without using things outside of computer science, but sometimes it takes a person with outside knowledge to really push things forward to the next level.