Thank you for doing this AMA and for all your work!
I have a practical question about the “quite a lot of travel”—could you share a bit more detail on how frequent the travel typically is and for how long at a time? Are these trips usually planned well in advance (say, a month or two), or are they more ad hoc?
And a more general question: how is the work organized internally? I’m interested in two of the advertised positions. If I were to be accepted for one of them, would I still be able to participate at least in discussions relevant to the other, or are the teams’ workstreams quite separate?
Travel: mostly planned (conferences, some research retreats).
We expect closely coordinated team work on the LLM psychology direction, with a bit looser connections to the gradual disempowerment / macrostrategy work. Broadly ACS is small enough that anyone is welcome to participate in anything they are interested in, and generally everyone has idea what others work on.
Thank you for doing this AMA and for all your work!
I have a practical question about the “quite a lot of travel”—could you share a bit more detail on how frequent the travel typically is and for how long at a time? Are these trips usually planned well in advance (say, a month or two), or are they more ad hoc?
And a more general question: how is the work organized internally? I’m interested in two of the advertised positions. If I were to be accepted for one of them, would I still be able to participate at least in discussions relevant to the other, or are the teams’ workstreams quite separate?
Travel: mostly planned (conferences, some research retreats).
We expect closely coordinated team work on the LLM psychology direction, with a bit looser connections to the gradual disempowerment / macrostrategy work. Broadly ACS is small enough that anyone is welcome to participate in anything they are interested in, and generally everyone has idea what others work on.