Check out my earlier answer to Ronnie, who overlaps substantially with your situation!
“How deeply” is a hard question! A good process to practice (and get better at!) is “working backwards from a goal.” So in addition to laying a bottom-up foundation (e.g. through this guide on research engineering) , think about the top-down shortest path between where you want to be and where you are. This requires (by definition!) having a clear picture of where you want to go, so sift through various roles, orgs, theories of change, worldviews, etc. and think through what kind research projects/skills/experiences lie on the critical path to your targets.
Being a “self-directed learner” is often about trying stuff and figuring out what works for you, but there’s tons of high quality content on becoming better at this, e.g. this piece by a Google DeepMind AI safety researcher.
You can demonstrate your skills in many ways! Some ideas include: write a blog, post on youtube, do excellent projects on github, and work on open-source repos. This list I maintain has some more ideas, as well as some AI safety researchers’ githubs for inspiration.
Hi Stormo,
Check out my earlier answer to Ronnie, who overlaps substantially with your situation!
“How deeply” is a hard question! A good process to practice (and get better at!) is “working backwards from a goal.” So in addition to laying a bottom-up foundation (e.g. through this guide on research engineering) , think about the top-down shortest path between where you want to be and where you are. This requires (by definition!) having a clear picture of where you want to go, so sift through various roles, orgs, theories of change, worldviews, etc. and think through what kind research projects/skills/experiences lie on the critical path to your targets.
Being a “self-directed learner” is often about trying stuff and figuring out what works for you, but there’s tons of high quality content on becoming better at this, e.g. this piece by a Google DeepMind AI safety researcher.
You can demonstrate your skills in many ways! Some ideas include: write a blog, post on youtube, do excellent projects on github, and work on open-source repos. This list I maintain has some more ideas, as well as some AI safety researchers’ githubs for inspiration.