Don’t look at the comments of the article if you want to stay positive.
Tiuto
Isn’t making your own bread really easy, you just need a bread maker put a bunch of ingredients in, press the button and wait. Seems like it might be worth a try. But obviously you know more about your situation than me.
10 years later and people are still writing funny coments here.
At the moment, a post is marked as “read” after just opening it. I understand it is useful not to have to mark every post as “I read this”, but it makes it so that if I just look at a post for 10 seconds to see whether it interests me, it gets marked as read. I would prefer if one could change the settings to a “I have to mark posts as <read> manually” mode. With a small box at the bottom of a post, one can check.
I think this might play a really big role. I’m a teenager and I and all the people I knew during school were very political. At parties people would occasionally talk about politics, in school talking about politics was very common, people occasionally went to demonstrations together, during the EU Parlament election we had a school wide election to see how our school would have voted. Basically I think 95% of students, starting at about age 14, had some sort of Idea about politics most probably had one party they preferred.
We were probably most concerned about climate change, inequality and Trump, Erdogan, Putin all that kind of stuff.
The young people that I know that are depressed are almost all very left wing and basically think capitalism and climate change will kill everyone exept the very rich. But I don’t know if they are depressed because of that (and my sample size is very small).
Hi, thanks for the advice.
Do you, or other people, know why your comment is getting downvoted? Right now it’s at −5 so I have to assume the general LW audience disagrees with your advice. Presumably people think it is really hard to become a ML researcher? Or do they think we already have enough people in ML so we don’t need more?
I am interested in working on AI alignment but doubt I’m clever enough to make any meaningful contribution, so how hard is it to be able to work on AI alignment? I’m currently a high school student, so I could basically plan my whole life so that I end up a researcher or software engineer or something else. Alignment being very difficult, and very intelligent people already working on it, it seems like I would have to almost be some kind of math/computer/ML genius to help at all. I’m definitely above average, my IQ is like 121 (I know the limitations of IQ as a measurement and that it’s not that important) in school I’m pretty good at maths and other sciences but not even the best out of my class of 25. So my question is basically how clever does one have to be to be able to contribute to AGI alignment?