Yeah, my experience has been that there’s a lot of posts talking about how AI safety companies want engineers, but it seems like it’s all wanting engineers who live in Berkley, San Francisco, or NYC, or wanting people to retrain as researchers coming at problems from a specific direction. The “How to get into independent research” post is more useful, but assumes you’re financially-independent and/or have an extreme tolerance to risk (step 1: quit your job and self-finance education for a few months). I’m currently in the process of saving up enough money to be able to do this, but it seems like I must not be the only one stuck here.
Thanks for posting this!
Yeah, my experience has been that there’s a lot of posts talking about how AI safety companies want engineers, but it seems like it’s all wanting engineers who live in Berkley, San Francisco, or NYC, or wanting people to retrain as researchers coming at problems from a specific direction. The “How to get into independent research” post is more useful, but assumes you’re financially-independent and/or have an extreme tolerance to risk (step 1: quit your job and self-finance education for a few months). I’m currently in the process of saving up enough money to be able to do this, but it seems like I must not be the only one stuck here.