Nice breakdown, I can see myself visiting this sometime in the future(hopefully not too soon)
My take on this is way too many people optimize for impact in the early rungs, which is bad. I think way too much of the messaging is impact-centric, which leads to people optimizing for the wrong end-goals when, in reality, hardly anyone will read/care about your shiny new fellowship paper.
For the past ~3 quarters, I have been optimizing for fun, and this gives me the right amount of kick to keep me going.
Additionally, for fields like policy, the lack of objective results is made up for by the higher requirements of social clout, which involves building a network that probably takes a lot of time(this is one of those pesky chicken and egg problems).
Good question, this can look very different for different people. My advice(and this might be not applicable to all) is do things that interest/excite you. The AI safety and governance field is very broad (especially with AI popping up in every field), so there’s tons of subfields to explore.
There might be issues that are more local/regional that are important to you, maybe there are things that worry you or your demographic and so on.
Nice breakdown, I can see myself visiting this sometime in the future(hopefully not too soon)
My take on this is way too many people optimize for impact in the early rungs, which is bad. I think way too much of the messaging is impact-centric, which leads to people optimizing for the wrong end-goals when, in reality, hardly anyone will read/care about your shiny new fellowship paper.
For the past ~3 quarters, I have been optimizing for fun, and this gives me the right amount of kick to keep me going.
Additionally, for fields like policy, the lack of objective results is made up for by the higher requirements of social clout, which involves building a network that probably takes a lot of time(this is one of those pesky chicken and egg problems).
I’m curious how you optimise for fun in AI safety, please?
Good question, this can look very different for different people. My advice(and this might be not applicable to all) is do things that interest/excite you. The AI safety and governance field is very broad (especially with AI popping up in every field), so there’s tons of subfields to explore.
There might be issues that are more local/regional that are important to you, maybe there are things that worry you or your demographic and so on.