Optimize your researcher’s single-threaded performance by offloading as many unnecessary tasks as possible to different cores workers. For example, mow the researcher’s lawn for them, cook for them, etc.
Speed up any learning parts by providing experts (i.e. if you want to know “Why is X?”, find an expert on X to answer questions about it instead of needing your researcher to track down the answer from less-personalized sources). Or spin off worker threads have assistants fetch and correlate personalized descriptions even if they’re not experts.
It’s also possible that some of this work can be sped up by putting researchers working on the problems in contact with each other. My understanding is that it’s generally more effective for people to bounce their ideas off of other smart people than to work alone.
I definitely wonder about the relative-effectiveness of e.g. paying on-call tutors about specific higher maths areas + CS, to help promising (or established) alignment researchers.
Some options I can think of:
Optimize your researcher’s single-threaded performance by offloading as many unnecessary tasks as possible to different
coresworkers. For example, mow the researcher’s lawn for them, cook for them, etc.Speed up any learning parts by providing experts (i.e. if you want to know “Why is X?”, find an expert on X to answer questions about it instead of needing your researcher to track down the answer from less-personalized sources). Or
spin off worker threadshave assistants fetch and correlate personalized descriptions even if they’re not experts.It’s also possible that some of this work can be sped up by putting researchers working on the problems in contact with each other. My understanding is that it’s generally more effective for people to bounce their ideas off of other smart people than to work alone.
I definitely wonder about the relative-effectiveness of e.g. paying on-call tutors about specific higher maths areas + CS, to help promising (or established) alignment researchers.