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This post is for students who hope to eventually work on technical problems we don’t understand, especially agency and AI alignment, and want to know…

x Study Guide — LessWrong Education Scholarship & Learning AI World Modeling Curated 317 Study Guide by johnswentworth 6th Nov 2021 20 min read 53 317 This post is for students who hope to eventually work on technical problems we don’t understand , especially agency and AI alignment, and want to know what to study or practice. Guiding Principles Current alignment researchers have wildly different recommendations on paths into the field, usually correlated with the wildly different paths these researchers have themselves taken into the field. This also correlates with different kinds of work on

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