Thanks for the report, I very much appreciate this condensed summary of your recent papers. I have three questions: 1. Can you explain your reasoning and degree of belief regarding whether your research does contribute to general AI capabilities progress? From my perspective, investigating belief geometry is very foundational and it is uncertain whether it will in the end contribute more to AI safety or to capabilities. 2. What are directions for future work that you want to investigate, or that you think are promising but don’t think you will investigate yourself? 3. As I saw the job posting on your website: do you think people with a theoretical computer science / algorithms PhD with experience in probability and geometry can meaningfully contribute? [In my previous research I have been modeling relevant structural properties of real-world networks to derive theoretical explanations for the surprising practical efficiency of certain graph algorithms. In particular, I have combined rigorous proofs and rigorous math with implementation and the empirical study of practical instances.]
Thanks for the report, I very much appreciate this condensed summary of your recent papers. I have three questions:
1. Can you explain your reasoning and degree of belief regarding whether your research does contribute to general AI capabilities progress? From my perspective, investigating belief geometry is very foundational and it is uncertain whether it will in the end contribute more to AI safety or to capabilities.
2. What are directions for future work that you want to investigate, or that you think are promising but don’t think you will investigate yourself?
3. As I saw the job posting on your website: do you think people with a theoretical computer science / algorithms PhD with experience in probability and geometry can meaningfully contribute?
[In my previous research I have been modeling relevant structural properties of real-world networks to derive theoretical explanations for the surprising practical efficiency of certain graph algorithms. In particular, I have combined rigorous proofs and rigorous math with implementation and the empirical study of practical instances.]