At present, the pipeline from AI capabilities researcher to AI alignment researcher is not very user friendly. While there are a few people like Rob Miles and Richard Ngo who have produced excellent onboarding materials, this niche is still fairly underserved compared to onboarding in many other fields. Creating more materials for a field has the advantage that because there are different formats that different people find more helpful, having more increases the likelihood that something works for any given person. While there are many different possible angles for onboarding, there are several potential avenues that stand out as promising due to successes in other fields:
High production value videos (similar to 3blue1brown, Kurzgesagt)
Course-like lectures and quizzes (similar to Khan academy)
Creating materials for alignment onboarding
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At present, the pipeline from AI capabilities researcher to AI alignment researcher is not very user friendly. While there are a few people like Rob Miles and Richard Ngo who have produced excellent onboarding materials, this niche is still fairly underserved compared to onboarding in many other fields. Creating more materials for a field has the advantage that because there are different formats that different people find more helpful, having more increases the likelihood that something works for any given person. While there are many different possible angles for onboarding, there are several potential avenues that stand out as promising due to successes in other fields:
High production value videos (similar to 3blue1brown, Kurzgesagt)
Course-like lectures and quizzes (similar to Khan academy)
Interactive learning apps (similar to Brilliant)