I haven’t reached out to anyone yet, primarily because I imagined that they (Luke, Eliezer, etc) receive many of these kinds of “I’m super excited to help, what can I do?” emails and pattern-matched that onto “annoying person who didn’t read the syllabus”. What has your experience been?
(This is part of what I was going for with the “find a person at a company who’s NOT the highest profile person to get feedback from.”)
Also, one person said to me “I’m generally quite happy to answer succinct, clear questions like ‘I’m considering whether to do X. I’ve thought of considerations N, M, and O. I’m wondering if consideration W is relevant?’”
As opposed to “Hey, what do you think of OpenAI/DeepMind/MIRI?” or other vague (and ‘can’t quite tell if this is an undercover journalist’)” style questions.
I haven’t reached out to anyone yet, primarily because I imagined that they (Luke, Eliezer, etc) receive many of these kinds of “I’m super excited to help, what can I do?” emails and pattern-matched that onto “annoying person who didn’t read the syllabus”. What has your experience been?
(I live in Oregon)
(This is part of what I was going for with the “find a person at a company who’s NOT the highest profile person to get feedback from.”)
Also, one person said to me “I’m generally quite happy to answer succinct, clear questions like ‘I’m considering whether to do X. I’ve thought of considerations N, M, and O. I’m wondering if consideration W is relevant?’”
As opposed to “Hey, what do you think of OpenAI/DeepMind/MIRI?” or other vague (and ‘can’t quite tell if this is an undercover journalist’)” style questions.