How’d you decide to go focus on going into research, even before you decided that developing technical skills would be helpful for that path?
I was influenced at that time by people like Matt Fallshaw and Ben Toner, who thought that for sufficiently good intellectual work, funding would be forthcoming. It seemed like insights were mostly what was needed to reduce existential risks...
How’d you decide to go focus on going into research, even before you decided that developing technical skills would be helpful for that path?
I was influenced at that time by people like Matt Fallshaw and Ben Toner, who thought that for sufficiently good intellectual work, funding would be forthcoming. It seemed like insights were mostly what was needed to reduce existential risks...