Yeah, I wish someone had told me this earlier—it would have led me to apply a lot earlier and not “saving my chance.” There’s a couple of layers to this thought process in my opinion:
Talented people often feel like they are not the ideal candidates/ they don’t have the right qualifications.
The kind of people EA attracts generally have a track record of checking every box, so they carry this “trait” over into the EA space
In general, there’s a lot of uncertainty in fields like AI governance even among experts from what I can glean
Cultures particularly in the global south punish people for being uncertain, let alone quantifying uncertanity
Yeah, I wish someone had told me this earlier—it would have led me to apply a lot earlier and not “saving my chance.” There’s a couple of layers to this thought process in my opinion:
Talented people often feel like they are not the ideal candidates/ they don’t have the right qualifications.
The kind of people EA attracts generally have a track record of checking every box, so they carry this “trait” over into the EA space
In general, there’s a lot of uncertainty in fields like AI governance even among experts from what I can glean
Cultures particularly in the global south punish people for being uncertain, let alone quantifying uncertanity