Sort of late to the party, but I’d like to note for any aspiring cognitive science student browsing the archives, that I doubt this comment is accurate. I’m studying cognitive science and, in practice, because of the flexibility we have and because cogsci has maths/cs as constitute disciplines, this largely means taking maths, AI or computer science (largely the same courses that people from these field take). These disciplines make up >60% of my studies. Of course, I’m behind people who focus on maths or cs exclusively in terms of maths and cs, but I don’t see a good reason to think that we lack the ability to think with precision and rigor to an extent that we can contribute to AI safety. Prove me wrong :)
Sort of late to the party, but I’d like to note for any aspiring cognitive science student browsing the archives, that I doubt this comment is accurate. I’m studying cognitive science and, in practice, because of the flexibility we have and because cogsci has maths/cs as constitute disciplines, this largely means taking maths, AI or computer science (largely the same courses that people from these field take). These disciplines make up >60% of my studies. Of course, I’m behind people who focus on maths or cs exclusively in terms of maths and cs, but I don’t see a good reason to think that we lack the ability to think with precision and rigor to an extent that we can contribute to AI safety. Prove me wrong :)