Why not just have the people who need mentorship serve as “research personal assistants” to improve the productivity of people who are qualified to provide mentorship? (This describes something which occurs between professors and graduate students right?)
I’ve heard the view that more EAs should consider being research assistants to seemingly highly skilled EA researchers[1], both for their own learning and to improve those researchers’ productivity. Is this what you mean?
I didn’t deliberately exclude mention of this from my above comment; I just didn’t think to include it. And now that you mention it (or something similar), I’d be interested in Owen’s take on this as well :)
[1] One could of course also do this for highly skilled non-EA researchers working in relevant areas. I just haven’t heard that suggested as often; I’m not sure if there are good reasons for that.
Why not just have the people who need mentorship serve as “research personal assistants” to improve the productivity of people who are qualified to provide mentorship? (This describes something which occurs between professors and graduate students right?)
I’ve heard the view that more EAs should consider being research assistants to seemingly highly skilled EA researchers[1], both for their own learning and to improve those researchers’ productivity. Is this what you mean?
I didn’t deliberately exclude mention of this from my above comment; I just didn’t think to include it. And now that you mention it (or something similar), I’d be interested in Owen’s take on this as well :)
[1] One could of course also do this for highly skilled non-EA researchers working in relevant areas. I just haven’t heard that suggested as often; I’m not sure if there are good reasons for that.