I suggest that this may send people down the wrong path by mistake:
Your article’s title is “How to become an AI Safety researcher”, the first title is “paths into AI safety”, I would expect the things you write there are.. paths to become an AI safety researcher.. (?)
And regarding
know what other people have done if you want to do similar work to them
I think that in my field (software), this would be pretty wrong. Lots of people have done CS degrees and got to impressive places, but wouldn’t suggest to others who want to reach the same places to do a CS degree too.
Lots of people ask me how I became a CTO as a service. The truth is I did a ton of embedded programming. Would I recommend others do that too? Not at all, and I don’t plan to ever go back there myself
I didn’t understand, are you recommending getting a similar degree?
Not exactly, but it seems useful to know what other people have done if you want to do similar work to them.
Obviously with all the standard hedges that we don’t want everyone doing exactly the same thing and thinking the same way.
I suggest that this may send people down the wrong path by mistake:
Your article’s title is “How to become an AI Safety researcher”, the first title is “paths into AI safety”, I would expect the things you write there are.. paths to become an AI safety researcher.. (?)
And regarding
I think that in my field (software), this would be pretty wrong. Lots of people have done CS degrees and got to impressive places, but wouldn’t suggest to others who want to reach the same places to do a CS degree too.
Lots of people ask me how I became a CTO as a service. The truth is I did a ton of embedded programming. Would I recommend others do that too? Not at all, and I don’t plan to ever go back there myself