That you’re working full time on research, have a stable salary, and are in a geographical location conducive to talking with a lot of other thoughtful people who think a lot about these topics, are all very valuable things, and I’m pleased to hear these things are happening for you :-)
On the subject of privacy, I was recently reading a friend’s career plan, who was looking for jobs in AI alignment, and I wrote this:
Do not accept secrets lightly. If you accept one wrong secret, you will go the way of MIRI or Leverage or US government officials with a security clearance, where it’s just too much effort to communicate your thoughts with outsiders, for fear of accidentally letting out secrets. And you’re not allowed to tell people the true reasons for your beliefs. It’s not that nobody should work at MIRI or Leverage or get confidential info from the government. It’s that it raises the costs of participating in public discourse to be not worth it for almost everyone involved.
It’s really great to hear that you’ll continue writing publicly, as I think the stuff you’re doing is important and exciting and there are strong distributed benefits for the broader landscape of people working on AI alignment or who want to.
Also feel free to come downstairs and hang out with us in the LessWrong offices :-)
That you’re working full time on research, have a stable salary, and are in a geographical location conducive to talking with a lot of other thoughtful people who think a lot about these topics, are all very valuable things, and I’m pleased to hear these things are happening for you :-)
On the subject of privacy, I was recently reading a friend’s career plan, who was looking for jobs in AI alignment, and I wrote this:
It’s really great to hear that you’ll continue writing publicly, as I think the stuff you’re doing is important and exciting and there are strong distributed benefits for the broader landscape of people working on AI alignment or who want to.
Also feel free to come downstairs and hang out with us in the LessWrong offices :-)