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Learning and research practice
How to get good at this. Learning efficiently, choosing problems worth the year, and the habits that separate reading about alignment from doing it.
5 posts.
How learning efficiently applies to alignment research
Studying only counts here if it shortens the path to insights that solve alignment. Wentworth's point about newcomers losing years to low-value sub-problems is the thing to avoid.
Current Thoughts on my Learning System
I coasted on raw ability and it stopped being enough. Learning is a set of skills you have to practise, and this is my public commitment to build the system.
What does "Effective" in EA mean to you?
Effective, to me, always meant doing the most good inside the share of your life you have decided to give it. A movement too demanding of everyone collapses.
AI Alignment YouTube Playlists
Two YouTube playlists of alignment talks, split by whether you have to watch the slides, so that one of them works while you walk.
I'll be in Berkeley for SERI MATS for the next 2 months
A short note from July 2022 saying I was heading to Berkeley for SERI MATS, and that I would like to meet people while I was there.