Hello there, my name is Martina! I joined the forum yesterday.
I have a physics background and I currently work as a scientific illustrator and high school textbook editor, but I’m here to explore how I can pivot my career to have a bigger impact and also feel more fulfilled. The path I’m most drawn to at the moment is AI safety, although I still have a lot of research to do, and because I’ve only been working for two years I’m very open to exploring different things.
I first came across longtermism and 80,000 hours through Ali Abdaal’s YouTube channel. Lately I’ve been reading many articles on 80,000 hours (I also applied for coaching), and from the links to this forum it looks like you have lots of great food for thought over here. I’m very excited to learn more about EA and eventually, when I feel more confident, join the discussion.
No pressure, but if you’d like to share a scientific illustration you’ve done, I’d love to see it (you can post in a comment below this).
Have you subscribed to the Forum Digest? If you can stomach another newsletter, it’s a pretty good way to read the best of the Forum every week. I’ve heard that people find reading a couple posts from it a week to be a good way to get into EA ways of writing and thinking. (I’ll be sending one out later today)
Hello there, my name is Martina! I joined the forum yesterday.
I have a physics background and I currently work as a scientific illustrator and high school textbook editor, but I’m here to explore how I can pivot my career to have a bigger impact and also feel more fulfilled. The path I’m most drawn to at the moment is AI safety, although I still have a lot of research to do, and because I’ve only been working for two years I’m very open to exploring different things.
I first came across longtermism and 80,000 hours through Ali Abdaal’s YouTube channel. Lately I’ve been reading many articles on 80,000 hours (I also applied for coaching), and from the links to this forum it looks like you have lots of great food for thought over here. I’m very excited to learn more about EA and eventually, when I feel more confident, join the discussion.
Hi Martina! Welcome :)
No pressure, but if you’d like to share a scientific illustration you’ve done, I’d love to see it (you can post in a comment below this).
Have you subscribed to the Forum Digest? If you can stomach another newsletter, it’s a pretty good way to read the best of the Forum every week. I’ve heard that people find reading a couple posts from it a week to be a good way to get into EA ways of writing and thinking. (I’ll be sending one out later today)
Cheers,
Toby (Content Manager for the EA Forum)
Hi Toby, thank you so much for your message!
Sure, here is a link to my scientific illustration portfolio.
Yes, I have subscribed to the Forum Digest and got yesterday’s email. I plan to dive into the posts very soon :)
Thanks for sharing Martina! I love the faults, errors, failures illustration with the bugs!