My follow-through, I’m a bad employee in terms of consistency and dependability, and much of that would apply to independent research: I kick ass for stretches then crash (3 to 5 months asskicking per one month burned out).
holy crap same type of pattern. am currently in a burned out period, but feel like I could become productive again with active management, if you figure out where to buy that definitely let me know! I’m personally considering applying for universities.
p.s. this metaphor search found some amusing old ai alignment plans that I don’t think are terribly useful but may be of historical interest to someone
I’m sniped by the areas of math I’m most aesthetically attracted to, and creating a 300 IQ plan with a bajillion 4D chess moves to rationalize working on them.
While you might be risking wasting your time for all I know, this research plan as a whole seems extremely high quality to me and on the right track in a way few are. That said, I think you’re underestimating how soon we’ll see TAI.
(or maybe I don’t know what people mean by TAI? I don’t think all technology will be solved for several decades after TAI and hitting max level on AI does not result in science instantly being completed. many causal experiments and/or enormous high-precision barely-approximate simulations are still needed, part of the task is factorizing that, but it will still be needed.)
Some metaphor searches to find (some of) the prior work for each section:
“On whose shoulders are we standing?” entire section as a search
zero-knowledge literature paragraph as a search
open source game theory paragraph as a search
″...modal logic, biosimulation, simplicial complexes...” paragraph as a search, with added “reading list” phrasing
“executable textbook for game theory”, finds a big list of game theory intro textbooks
holy crap same type of pattern. am currently in a burned out period, but feel like I could become productive again with active management, if you figure out where to buy that definitely let me know! I’m personally considering applying for universities.
p.s. this metaphor search found some amusing old ai alignment plans that I don’t think are terribly useful but may be of historical interest to someone
While you might be risking wasting your time for all I know, this research plan as a whole seems extremely high quality to me and on the right track in a way few are. That said, I think you’re underestimating how soon we’ll see TAI.
(or maybe I don’t know what people mean by TAI? I don’t think all technology will be solved for several decades after TAI and hitting max level on AI does not result in science instantly being completed. many causal experiments and/or enormous high-precision barely-approximate simulations are still needed, part of the task is factorizing that, but it will still be needed.)