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Writing About My Job: Research Manager — EA Forum
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MATS is hiring for new research managers, so we figured that we would share a bit about what it is like to work as research managers for an AI safety…
akashagrawal 5mo * 1 0 0 1 Great post! If someone needs anecdotal validation for the importance of MATS research managers: As a mentee whose RM was Jeffrey, RMing improved my research productivity and future outcomes by more than 100% -- having done a few research projects before MATS, I can definitely imagine a counterfactual scenario where I would've been much more miserable and much less productive for large amounts of time had it not been for my RM. Reply
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