No concrete plans one way or the other.
Max Nadeau
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Apply to the Redwood Research Mechanistic Interpretability Experiment (REMIX), a research program in Berkeley
It is possible but unlikely that such a person would be a TA. Someone with little prior ML experience would be a better fit as a participant.
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)”.
From the post: “We plan to have some researchers arrive early, with some people starting as soon as possible. The majority of researchers will likely participate during the months of December and/or January.”
Best of luck with your new gig; excited to hear about it! Also, I really appreciate the honesty and specificity in this post.