Every time I think of doing research in a field that’s too crowded, this post puts a faint image in my head of an obnoxious guy banging a drum at the front of a marching band. This is a real issue we need to keep in mind, both in AI safety research and elsewhere, and the number of LW posts that I remember at all two years later is pretty small, so this obviously deserves at least +1 review point.
The section on status made me pay more attention to my desire for status itself, but that’s probably just me.
Every time I think of doing research in a field that’s too crowded, this post puts a faint image in my head of an obnoxious guy banging a drum at the front of a marching band. This is a real issue we need to keep in mind, both in AI safety research and elsewhere, and the number of LW posts that I remember at all two years later is pretty small, so this obviously deserves at least +1 review point.
The section on status made me pay more attention to my desire for status itself, but that’s probably just me.