Yeah, that would be great indeed. Unfortunately my Japanese is so rudimentary that I can’t even explain to my landlord that I need a big piece of cloth to hang it in front of my window (just to name an example). :-( I’m making progress, but getting a handle on Japanese is about as time-consuming as getting a handle on ML, although more mechanical.
Do you get the impression that Japan has numerous benevolent and talented researchers who could and would contribute meaningfully to AI safety work? If so, it seems possible to me that your comparative advantage is in evangelism rather than research (subject to the constraint that you’re staying in Japan indefinitely). If you’re able to send multiple qualified Japanese researchers west, that’s potentially more than you’d be able to do as an individual.
You’d still want to have thorough knowledge of the issues yourself, if only to convince Japanese researchers that the problems were interesting.
Why should I send them west? Hopefully so that they learn and come back and produce researcher offspring? I’ll see what I can do. – Nag my supervisor to take me to domestic conferences…
Maybe translating AI safety literature into Japanese would be a high-value use of your time ?
Yeah, that would be great indeed. Unfortunately my Japanese is so rudimentary that I can’t even explain to my landlord that I need a big piece of cloth to hang it in front of my window (just to name an example). :-( I’m making progress, but getting a handle on Japanese is about as time-consuming as getting a handle on ML, although more mechanical.
Do you get the impression that Japan has numerous benevolent and talented researchers who could and would contribute meaningfully to AI safety work? If so, it seems possible to me that your comparative advantage is in evangelism rather than research (subject to the constraint that you’re staying in Japan indefinitely). If you’re able to send multiple qualified Japanese researchers west, that’s potentially more than you’d be able to do as an individual.
You’d still want to have thorough knowledge of the issues yourself, if only to convince Japanese researchers that the problems were interesting.
Why should I send them west? Hopefully so that they learn and come back and produce researcher offspring? I’ll see what I can do. – Nag my supervisor to take me to domestic conferences…