How do we close the Junior <> Senior talent gap™? · Ady Mehta
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On mentorship, junior and senior talent in AI safety, a prototype, and learning from Josh Landes at BlueDot.
← Writing How do we close the Junior <> Senior talent gap™? One researcher or mentor can clear months of confusion in twenty minutes. They can tell you which question is fake-hard, which papers are relevant, whether your instincts are pointed in the right direction, and, perchance, even if you were about to waste six weeks on the wrong thing. In fields like AI safety, where so much of the work is young and tacit and not yet fully written down, these conversations matter even more. For example, 20-minutes of Michael Aird will teach one more about career planning than six months of sporadic advi
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