In general, I wish this year? (*checks* huh, only 4 months.)
Nah I didn’t loose that much time. I already quit the project end of January, I just wrote the post now. Most of the technical work was also pretty useful for understanding language, which is a useful angle on agent foundations. I had previously expected working on that angle to be 80% as effective as my previous best plan, but it was even better, around similarly good I think. That was like 5-5.5 weeks and that was not wasted.
I guess I spent like 4.5 weeks overall on learning about orcas (including first seeing whether I might be able to decode their language and thinking about how and also coming up with the whole “teach language” idea), and like 3 weeks on orga stuff for trying to make the experiment happen.
Nah I didn’t loose that much time. I already quit the project end of January, I just wrote the post now. Most of the technical work was also pretty useful for understanding language, which is a useful angle on agent foundations. I had previously expected working on that angle to be 80% as effective as my previous best plan, but it was even better, around similarly good I think. That was like 5-5.5 weeks and that was not wasted.
I guess I spent like 4.5 weeks overall on learning about orcas (including first seeing whether I might be able to decode their language and thinking about how and also coming up with the whole “teach language” idea), and like 3 weeks on orga stuff for trying to make the experiment happen.