i’ve wished to have a research buddy who is very knowledgeable about math or theoretical computer science to answer questions or program experiments (given good specification). but:
idk how to find such a person
such a person may wish to focus on their own agenda instead
unless they’re a friend already, idk if i have great evidence that i’d be impactful to support.
so: i could instead do the inverse with someone. i am good at having creative ideas, and i could try to have new ideas about your thing, conditional on me (1) being able to {quickly understand it} and reason about it and (2) not thinking it is doomed.
if you want me to potentially try doing this for your focuses, message me here. (constraints: you must be focused on the ‘hard problems of alignment’, and accept me communicating only with text)
i think that in either starting arrangement, if it worked out well, then our models would eventually overlap in the research-direction-relevant parts and we’d form a kind of superorganism that uses both of our abilities. but it going that well may be rare (i don’t actually know!). the cost/benefit looks good to me.
i’ve wished to have a research buddy who is very knowledgeable about math or theoretical computer science to answer questions or program experiments (given good specification). but:
idk how to find such a person
such a person may wish to focus on their own agenda instead
unless they’re a friend already, idk if i have great evidence that i’d be impactful to support.
so: i could instead do the inverse with someone. i am good at having creative ideas, and i could try to have new ideas about your thing, conditional on me (1) being able to {quickly understand it} and reason about it and (2) not thinking it is doomed.
if you want me to potentially try doing this for your focuses, message me here. (constraints: you must be focused on the ‘hard problems of alignment’, and accept me communicating only with text)
i think that in either starting arrangement, if it worked out well, then our models would eventually overlap in the research-direction-relevant parts and we’d form a kind of superorganism that uses both of our abilities. but it going that well may be rare (i don’t actually know!). the cost/benefit looks good to me.