If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.
If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited. This is also the place to discuss feature requests and other ideas you have for the site, if you don't want to write a full top-level post.
If you're new to the community, you can start reading the Highlights from the Sequences, a collection of posts about the core ideas of LessWrong.
Hey everyone, I'm new to posting here but have been reading the intro posts for a few weeks. I'm a software engineer working on AI evaluation products (LLM as a judge, RAG evaluation, etc.) which I find interesting from a technical perspective but ultimately I would like to shift more of my time into responsible AI and AI safety.
I have always had an interest in this topic but have only explored through popular books on the subject so far, Weapons of Math Destruction, Technically Wrong, and the Alignment Problem. I also did a minor in AI ethics in college where I wrote a paper on the ethics of a university using a Twitter scraper for public tweets and sentiment analysis to determine student well-being around campus during the pandemic.
Many of the origin stories around this website really resonated with me. After finishing my degree and joining the corporate world I found a lack of opportunities for writing and discussion about the ethics of artificial intelligence even though I am working in a problem space adjacent to it. My aim here is to begin contributing to discussions and to improve my skills of critical thinking in this area which I hope will pair nicely with my technical background. I have really enjoyed reading through the posts here and I hope to get better at both writing and forming logical arguments around subjects I am passionate about.
Anyways, great to meet you all, thank you for creating this community.
If it’s worth saying, but not worth its own post, here's a place to put it.
If you are new to LessWrong, here's the place to introduce yourself. Personal stories, anecdotes, or just general comments on how you found us and what you hope to get from the site and community are invited. This is also the place to discuss feature requests and other ideas you have for the site, if you don't want to write a full top-level post.
If you're new to the community, you can start reading the Highlights from the Sequences, a collection of posts about the core ideas of LessWrong.
If you want to explore the community more, I recommend reading the Library, checking recent Curated posts, seeing if there are any meetups in your area, and checking out the Getting Started section of the LessWrong FAQ. If you want to orient to the content on the site, you can also check out the Concepts section.
The Open Thread tag is here. The Open Thread sequence is here.