Should marginal CHAI PhD graduates who are dispositionally indifferent between the two options try to become a professor or do research outside of universities?
Not sure. If you don’t want to train students, seems toe me like you should be outside of a university. If you do want to train students it’s less clear and maybe depends on what you want to do (and given that students vary in what they are looking for, this is probably locally self-correcting if too many people go one way or the other). I’d certainly lean away from university for the kinds of work that I want to do, or for the kinds of things that involve aligning large ML systems (which benefit from some connection to customers and resources).
Should marginal CHAI PhD graduates who are dispositionally indifferent between the two options try to become a professor or do research outside of universities?
Not sure. If you don’t want to train students, seems toe me like you should be outside of a university. If you do want to train students it’s less clear and maybe depends on what you want to do (and given that students vary in what they are looking for, this is probably locally self-correcting if too many people go one way or the other). I’d certainly lean away from university for the kinds of work that I want to do, or for the kinds of things that involve aligning large ML systems (which benefit from some connection to customers and resources).