It sounds like you think that having a high school degree, a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree is a requirement for working on AI safety. That isn’t true Eliezer Yudkowsky for example has neither of those.
The government is willing to give me (stolen from taxpayers) around $1000/month in student welfare to finish my high school degree. And a student loan at ~1.5% interest of around $1000/month and ~$500 in welfare for university. However if I work part-time alongside finishing high school, it will pretty much be what I pay in taxes. ~50% tax on freelance, and 25% on goods I purchase in the store. But that means 60 h / week.
I don’t think I want to work in an unskilled labor job. If I was certain that my IQ was around 100 then I would… If I don’t go to school now I will have to learn on my own for 1-2 years web development to get a job that way to sustain building AGI.
I know Yudkowsky don’t, but how would you balance work-agi-life?
I would start learning CAD software, and try and get a job locally as a machinist. Then start learning some robotics, 3D printing, and at least some Python coding. Then head out to the Mojave Spaceport, and try and get a gig in the commercial space industry.
You’re young enough to maybe get a gig later in life as an on-orbit or lunar machinist and 3-D printer tech. Might as well be building the robots that the AI will be operating. That would be helping humanity’s future, and giving you a unique future to live in also.
I think that it’s very likely that the amount of information you provide about your present position is not enough to give you qualified advice.
I intuition suggest that spending ages 21 to 28 to get a high school diploma likely isn’t worth it but I don’t think I have enough information to tell you what you should do. One thing that might be valuable is to broaden your view and look at different possible paths and actually talk to different people at length in real life.
What’s your age?
It sounds like you think that having a high school degree, a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree is a requirement for working on AI safety. That isn’t true Eliezer Yudkowsky for example has neither of those.
21-22.
The government is willing to give me (stolen from taxpayers) around $1000/month in student welfare to finish my high school degree. And a student loan at ~1.5% interest of around $1000/month and ~$500 in welfare for university. However if I work part-time alongside finishing high school, it will pretty much be what I pay in taxes. ~50% tax on freelance, and 25% on goods I purchase in the store. But that means 60 h / week.
I don’t think I want to work in an unskilled labor job. If I was certain that my IQ was around 100 then I would… If I don’t go to school now I will have to learn on my own for 1-2 years web development to get a job that way to sustain building AGI.
I know Yudkowsky don’t, but how would you balance work-agi-life?
If i were your age...
I would start learning CAD software, and try and get a job locally as a machinist. Then start learning some robotics, 3D printing, and at least some Python coding. Then head out to the Mojave Spaceport, and try and get a gig in the commercial space industry.
You’re young enough to maybe get a gig later in life as an on-orbit or lunar machinist and 3-D printer tech. Might as well be building the robots that the AI will be operating. That would be helping humanity’s future, and giving you a unique future to live in also.
I think that it’s very likely that the amount of information you provide about your present position is not enough to give you qualified advice.
I intuition suggest that spending ages 21 to 28 to get a high school diploma likely isn’t worth it but I don’t think I have enough information to tell you what you should do. One thing that might be valuable is to broaden your view and look at different possible paths and actually talk to different people at length in real life.