I think that MLAB is a good use of time for many people who don’t plan to do technical alignment research long term but who intend to do theoretical alignment research or work on other things where being knowledgeable about ML techniques is useful.
Do you mean you don’t think MLAB would be a good use of time for people who do “plan to do technical alignment research long term”?
We intended that sentence to be read as: “In addition to people who plan on doing technical alignment, MLAB can be valuable to other sorts of people (e.g. theoretical researchers)”.
This sounds really exciting!
I’m a bit unclear on the below point:
Do you mean you don’t think MLAB would be a good use of time for people who do “plan to do technical alignment research long term”?
We intended that sentence to be read as: “In addition to people who plan on doing technical alignment, MLAB can be valuable to other sorts of people (e.g. theoretical researchers)”.