Is your bottle neck distributed computing and except for that you can get [the AI Safety job you spoke about] tomorrow? Did you interview with such a company to make sure this is all you have missing?
If not—I’d probably focus on other skills, mainly because distributed computing (1) is not a must, and (2) is pretty hard to learn, compared to other skills, many of which are more important, at least given the ideas I have on how to learn it.
See also the section on preparing for AI Safety jobs if you didn’t see it already
I have a better answer:
Is your bottle neck distributed computing and except for that you can get [the AI Safety job you spoke about] tomorrow? Did you interview with such a company to make sure this is all you have missing?
If not—I’d probably focus on other skills, mainly because distributed computing (1) is not a must, and (2) is pretty hard to learn, compared to other skills, many of which are more important, at least given the ideas I have on how to learn it.
See also the section on preparing for AI Safety jobs if you didn’t see it already