(Told this to Jenny in person, but posting for the benefit of others)
AI safety is a young, pre-paradigmatic area of research without a universally accepted mathematical formalism, so if you're after cool math, my suggestion is to learn the basics of one or two well-established fields that are mathematically mature and have a decent chance of being relevant to AI safety.
In particular, I think Learning Theory and Causality are areas with plenty of Aesthetic Math™.
Learning theory
Statistical learning theory is the mathematical study of inductive reasoning—how ... (read more)
(Told this to Jenny in person, but posting for the benefit of others)
AI safety is a young, pre-paradigmatic area of research without a universally accepted mathematical formalism, so if you're after cool math, my suggestion is to learn the basics of one or two well-established fields that are mathematically mature and have a decent chance of being relevant to AI safety.
In particular, I think Learning Theory and Causality are areas with plenty of Aesthetic Math™.
Learning theory
Statistical learning theory is the mathematical study of inductive reasoning—how ... (read more)