Interesting, that is the level that feels most like it doesn’t have a solid place in a linear progression of skills. I wrote “Level 1 kind of happens all the time” to try to reflect this, but I ultimately decided to put it at the start because I feel that for people just starting out it can be a good way to test their fit for AI safety broadly (do they buy the arguments?) and decide whether they want to go down a more theoretical or empirical path. I just added some language to Level 1 to clarify this.
Interesting, that is the level that feels most like it doesn’t have a solid place in a linear progression of skills. I wrote “Level 1 kind of happens all the time” to try to reflect this, but I ultimately decided to put it at the start because I feel that for people just starting out it can be a good way to test their fit for AI safety broadly (do they buy the arguments?) and decide whether they want to go down a more theoretical or empirical path. I just added some language to Level 1 to clarify this.