Yeah, this seems especially good for folks who want the affordance to continue within academia, but haven’t yet been able to build expertise on the problems that seem most important, and will otherwise likely be shunted into the favoured topics of the available PhD supervisors. This is a place where you can build expertise about something important, and if you complete a project others will be able to see that.
Also, I have had the repeated experience of seeing competent people shy away from applying to things before they know that they’re definitely a good fit, or whether the program/project can tailor their needs, or whether the program/project has enough people already. In general applying is cheap and will give you more information, while not applying rarely gives you more info. So I hope folks err on the side of applying.
As a data point for why this might be occurring. I may be an outlier, but I’ve not had much luck getting replies or useful dialogue from X-risk related organisations in response to my attempts at communications.
My expectation, currently. is that if I apply I won’t get a response and I will have wasted my time trying to compose an application. I won’t get any more information than I previously had.
If this isn’t just me, you might want to encourage organisations to be more communicative.
Yeah, this seems especially good for folks who want the affordance to continue within academia, but haven’t yet been able to build expertise on the problems that seem most important, and will otherwise likely be shunted into the favoured topics of the available PhD supervisors. This is a place where you can build expertise about something important, and if you complete a project others will be able to see that.
Also, I have had the repeated experience of seeing competent people shy away from applying to things before they know that they’re definitely a good fit, or whether the program/project can tailor their needs, or whether the program/project has enough people already. In general applying is cheap and will give you more information, while not applying rarely gives you more info. So I hope folks err on the side of applying.
As a data point for why this might be occurring. I may be an outlier, but I’ve not had much luck getting replies or useful dialogue from X-risk related organisations in response to my attempts at communications.
My expectation, currently. is that if I apply I won’t get a response and I will have wasted my time trying to compose an application. I won’t get any more information than I previously had.
If this isn’t just me, you might want to encourage organisations to be more communicative.