One other quality I’d add: Emotional stability, even in the face of things not adding up to normality.
One big thing that all Alignment researchers should have (including junior researchers) is the ability to be able to make sure they can emotionally accept that sometimes, things don’t add up to normality, and that in a field like alignment, they will need to be able to at least in theory accept that the world may be doomed, but that shouldn’t break them or have their emotions make things worse.
One other quality I’d add: Emotional stability, even in the face of things not adding up to normality.
One big thing that all Alignment researchers should have (including junior researchers) is the ability to be able to make sure they can emotionally accept that sometimes, things don’t add up to normality, and that in a field like alignment, they will need to be able to at least in theory accept that the world may be doomed, but that shouldn’t break them or have their emotions make things worse.