It seems like you should probably skip AISTR if you have good evidence that your shape rotator abilities aren’t reasonably strong — e.g., you studied reasonably hard for SAT Math but got <700 (90th percentile among all SAT takers).[5]
The above gives a rule of thumb for ruling oneself out of AISTR. On the flip side, I’m curious if you or anyone else has thought hard about what measurable attributes could correlate strongly with high AISTR aptitude, and whether AI safety field-builders can use this to recruit new AISTRs.
(Examples of measurable attributes might be math/informatics olympiad achievement, IQ score, chess rating, etc. Though I wouldn’t want anyone to anchor to these suggestions I’ve just thrown out, I’ve only just spent 2 minutes thinking about this.)
Awesome post!
I find this bit interesting:
The above gives a rule of thumb for ruling oneself out of AISTR. On the flip side, I’m curious if you or anyone else has thought hard about what measurable attributes could correlate strongly with high AISTR aptitude, and whether AI safety field-builders can use this to recruit new AISTRs.
(Examples of measurable attributes might be math/informatics olympiad achievement, IQ score, chess rating, etc. Though I wouldn’t want anyone to anchor to these suggestions I’ve just thrown out, I’ve only just spent 2 minutes thinking about this.)