If anyone’s interested in doing an even less formal version of this, I think it would be really useful for me to have semi-regular chats with other people in the alignment space. This could be anything from “you mentor me for an hour a week at the Lightcone office” to “we chat for 15 minutes on zoom every few weeks”. I feel reasonably connected to the community, but I think I would strongly benefit from more two-way real-time interaction.
(More info about me: I’m currently doing full-time independent alignment research, but just on my own, with no structure. I majored in math & physics ten years ago, but dropped out. I’m quite comfortable generating my own ideas to pursue, but I’m still a baby in some domains (e.g. this week I’m finally learning what a Markov process formally is). I’m way more agent-foundations-flavored than ML flavored; definitely interested in ML, but you might end up teaching me stuff the whole time.)
If it’s easier for you, we can already facilitate that through M&M. Like we said, as long as both parties agree, you can do whatever makes sense for you :) But the program might make finding other people easier.
If anyone’s interested in doing an even less formal version of this, I think it would be really useful for me to have semi-regular chats with other people in the alignment space. This could be anything from “you mentor me for an hour a week at the Lightcone office” to “we chat for 15 minutes on zoom every few weeks”. I feel reasonably connected to the community, but I think I would strongly benefit from more two-way real-time interaction.
(More info about me: I’m currently doing full-time independent alignment research, but just on my own, with no structure. I majored in math & physics ten years ago, but dropped out. I’m quite comfortable generating my own ideas to pursue, but I’m still a baby in some domains (e.g. this week I’m finally learning what a Markov process formally is). I’m way more agent-foundations-flavored than ML flavored; definitely interested in ML, but you might end up teaching me stuff the whole time.)
If it’s easier for you, we can already facilitate that through M&M. Like we said, as long as both parties agree, you can do whatever makes sense for you :) But the program might make finding other people easier.