I did SERI-MATS in the winter cohort in 2023. I am as familiar with the alignment field as is possible without having founded it or been given a research grant to work in it professionally (which I have sought but been turned down in the past).
I’m happy to send out drafts, and occasionally I do, but the high-status people I ask to read my drafts never quite seem to have the time to read them. I don’t think this is because of any fault of theirs, but it also has not conditioned me to seek feedback before publishing things that seem potentially controversial.
Most of the mentors I have are, for natural reasons, very high-status people. I want to call out @Steven Byrnes as having been a notable exception to the trend of high-status people not responding to my drafts.
I can share my email address with anybody who DM’s me, if people are willing to read my drafts.
I’m glad to hear you got exposure to the Alignment field in SERI MATS! I still think that your writing reads off as though your ideas misunderstands core alignment problems, so my best feedback then is to share drafts/discuss your ideas with other familiar with the field. My guess is that it would be preferable for you to find people who are critical of your ideas and try to understand why, since it seems like they are representative of the kinds of people who are downvoting your posts.
I did SERI-MATS in the winter cohort in 2023. I am as familiar with the alignment field as is possible without having founded it or been given a research grant to work in it professionally (which I have sought but been turned down in the past).
I’m happy to send out drafts, and occasionally I do, but the high-status people I ask to read my drafts never quite seem to have the time to read them. I don’t think this is because of any fault of theirs, but it also has not conditioned me to seek feedback before publishing things that seem potentially controversial.
Have you tried getting feedback rather than getting feedback from high-status people?
Most of the mentors I have are, for natural reasons, very high-status people. I want to call out @Steven Byrnes as having been a notable exception to the trend of high-status people not responding to my drafts.
I can share my email address with anybody who DM’s me, if people are willing to read my drafts.
I’m glad to hear you got exposure to the Alignment field in SERI MATS! I still think that your writing reads off as though your ideas misunderstands core alignment problems, so my best feedback then is to share drafts/discuss your ideas with other familiar with the field. My guess is that it would be preferable for you to find people who are critical of your ideas and try to understand why, since it seems like they are representative of the kinds of people who are downvoting your posts.