The title seems… confused? There is no way that “5% of people had no impact” and “37% of people now have a substantial impact”. The post seems to suggest that what you actually mean is “X% of people now self-identify as working on AI safety”. IMO the title should reflect that.
Also, equating “works on AI safety” with “has an impact” seems pretty misguided, since there are tons of ways to have an impact without doing the kind of work I assume you would classify as working on AI safety.
(I overall like the course, but the language in this post doesn’t really provide much evidence given its markety-bend, which makes it hard for me to trust)
Agreed the title is confusing. I assumed it meant that some metric was 5% for last year’s course, and 37% for this year’s course. I think I would just nix numbers from the title altogether.
The title seems… confused? There is no way that “5% of people had no impact” and “37% of people now have a substantial impact”. The post seems to suggest that what you actually mean is “X% of people now self-identify as working on AI safety”. IMO the title should reflect that.
Also, equating “works on AI safety” with “has an impact” seems pretty misguided, since there are tons of ways to have an impact without doing the kind of work I assume you would classify as working on AI safety.
(I overall like the course, but the language in this post doesn’t really provide much evidence given its markety-bend, which makes it hard for me to trust)
Agreed the title is confusing. I assumed it meant that some metric was 5% for last year’s course, and 37% for this year’s course. I think I would just nix numbers from the title altogether.
Thanks for this feedback! I’ve updated the title wording to from “___ having an impact” to “___ working on AI safety”.