After taking a summer to deeply contemplate what I want to do with my life, I decided I want to do whatever is most beneficial for the advancement of humanity.
From everything I thought of, it came down to either education (enabling humans) or Artificial Intelligence (building something better than a human). I decided on AI, and am looking to build my foundations in alignment and development (previously I was focused on climate change prevention).
My main method of learning is interaction, so I joined my schools AI club, and have joined a few forums, and am reading voraciously on the latest in AI, policy, and alignment.
This feels incredibly useful in concept… If the goal is to build a sustainable system that you actually want to use, maybe create a library of figures to track, and use a language model to automatically sort statements as pertaining to certain issues and then gauge their stance with sentiment analysis… This could get pushed to you or a team member for approval before actually going on the site, and could save a lot of time.