[NORMAL] Already posted something quite similar as a reply, but posting as a main comment to indicate broader interest as well.
[APPRENTICE] AI Alignment, Machine Learning Research
I'm an incoming new grad SWE at Google and have a degree in Statistics and Data Science, to give an idea of my background and skillset. I have a modest amount of experience with machine/deep learning, mainly through coursework and a few personal projects (taken and TAd a class on Natural Language Processing, taken a survey Deep Learning class, wrote my undergraduate thesis on appl... (read more)
[APPRENTICE] I'd be interested in starting to work in AI alignment, and aligning language models sounds particularly interesting.
I'm an incoming new grad SWE at Google and have a degree in Statistics and Data Science, to give an idea of my background and skillset. I have a modest amount of experience with machine/deep learning, mainly through coursework and a few personal projects (taken and TAd a class on Natural Language Processing, taken a survey Deep Learning class, wrote my undergraduate thesis on applying neural networks to causal inference pro... (read more)
Mike Israetel (co-founded RP (disclosure: I intern here), wrote thesebooksofsome potential interest). I'm a friend of Mike's and can also vouch that his thinking style is very rationalist-adjacent.
[NORMAL] Already posted something quite similar as a reply, but posting as a main comment to indicate broader interest as well.
[APPRENTICE] AI Alignment, Machine Learning Research
I'm an incoming new grad SWE at Google and have a degree in Statistics and Data Science, to give an idea of my background and skillset. I have a modest amount of experience with machine/deep learning, mainly through coursework and a few personal projects (taken and TAd a class on Natural Language Processing, taken a survey Deep Learning class, wrote my undergraduate thesis on appl... (read more)