Thanks for running this survey! I’m looking to move into AI alignment, and this represents a useful aggregator of recommendations from professionals and from other newcomers; I was already focussing on AGISF but it’s useful to see that many of the resources advertised as ‘introductory’ on the alignment forum (e.g. the Embedded Agency sequence) are not rated as very useful.
I was also surprised that conversations with researchers ranked quite low as a recommendation to newcomers, but I guess it makes sense that most alignment researchers are not as good at ‘interpreting’ research as e.g. Rob Miles, Richard Ngo.
My guess is that it’s also because conversations are less optimized (being done on the fly) and maybe harder to access. It’s still the case that people getting into alignment found them “very” useful on average, which seems like high praise to me.
Thanks for running this survey! I’m looking to move into AI alignment, and this represents a useful aggregator of recommendations from professionals and from other newcomers; I was already focussing on AGISF but it’s useful to see that many of the resources advertised as ‘introductory’ on the alignment forum (e.g. the Embedded Agency sequence) are not rated as very useful.
I was also surprised that conversations with researchers ranked quite low as a recommendation to newcomers, but I guess it makes sense that most alignment researchers are not as good at ‘interpreting’ research as e.g. Rob Miles, Richard Ngo.
My guess is that it’s also because conversations are less optimized (being done on the fly) and maybe harder to access. It’s still the case that people getting into alignment found them “very” useful on average, which seems like high praise to me.