Hey! Wanna reiterate something I said in the other question you asked.
You need to talk to someone in real life with richer knowledge about the universities you’re considering and ideally someone’s who has gone down the same path. Internet advice is going to reflect people’s intuitions about CS and medical school in the US and UK.
Rankings are immensely contextual. In some contexts, top 5 versus top 10 has no meaning. In others, it’s a big jump. In rare cases (though I think these are exaggerated), it can be better to get mentorship from the lower ranked place.
And the ranking likely reflects things that aren’t what you’re optimizing towards. For example, have CS professors mentored people outside their university? How is the AI safety community of grad students and bachelors? How much of as structure is there for networking? Is either school known for connections to Bay Area? These things can be very idiosyncratic
Hello Geoffrey: Thanks for your reply, and I’m also asking the professors in Taiwan I know on whether they would be open to collabortae with students from other colleges. You’re right that this question is somewhat localized. EA people in Taiwan that’s familiar with doing AI risks reserach would be the best to answer this question, however there are very few(<3 people) in Taiwan. Therefore I think it’d still be beneficial to see how western EA thinks about this question
Hey! Wanna reiterate something I said in the other question you asked.
You need to talk to someone in real life with richer knowledge about the universities you’re considering and ideally someone’s who has gone down the same path. Internet advice is going to reflect people’s intuitions about CS and medical school in the US and UK.
Rankings are immensely contextual. In some contexts, top 5 versus top 10 has no meaning. In others, it’s a big jump. In rare cases (though I think these are exaggerated), it can be better to get mentorship from the lower ranked place.
And the ranking likely reflects things that aren’t what you’re optimizing towards. For example, have CS professors mentored people outside their university? How is the AI safety community of grad students and bachelors? How much of as structure is there for networking? Is either school known for connections to Bay Area? These things can be very idiosyncratic
Hello Geoffrey: Thanks for your reply, and I’m also asking the professors in Taiwan I know on whether they would be open to collabortae with students from other colleges. You’re right that this question is somewhat localized. EA people in Taiwan that’s familiar with doing AI risks reserach would be the best to answer this question, however there are very few(<3 people) in Taiwan. Therefore I think it’d still be beneficial to see how western EA thinks about this question