By the end of 2025, which piece of advice will I feel has had the most positive impact on me becoming an effective AI alignment researcher?
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get enough sleep
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write note files/.txt files/gdocs/other single document to describe what you hope to get out of each experiment, before you run it
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seek worst case bounds, but distrust them
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Stress less about general image and status
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Mark's post on how to do theoretical research: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zbFGRRWPwxBwjwknY/how-to-do-theoretical-research-a-personal-perspective-1
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Do more experiments. Develop research intimacy and intuition
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Intentful bodily care (sleep, water, and light exercise)
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Careful tracking of burnout and allocating time and resources to explicit relaxation
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At the end of 2025, I will select a piece of advice from these responses that I feel has had the most positive impact on me becoming an effective AI alignment researcher.
The advice does not have to be original, but originality helps.
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The worst case bounds answer led me to this post by Buck: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yTvBSFrXhZfL8vr5a/worst-case-thinking-in-ai-alignment#My_list_of_reasons_to_maybe_use_worst_case_thinking
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