Yeah, this was the source of much personal consternation when I left my operations-heavy career path in industry to explore research roles, as much as I found the latter more intrinsically exciting.
It’s also what’s always back-of-mind w.r.t. the alignment-related work I’m most excited by, even though part of why I’m excited about them is how relatively empirically grounded they are.
Yyep. And it’s much much worse for research.
Yeah, this was the source of much personal consternation when I left my operations-heavy career path in industry to explore research roles, as much as I found the latter more intrinsically exciting.
It’s also what’s always back-of-mind w.r.t. the alignment-related work I’m most excited by, even though part of why I’m excited about them is how relatively empirically grounded they are.