I've been involved in Effective Altruism since 2015, including founding a society and working in movement building. Later, I quit my job as a digital consultant to work on AI. I did a data science bootcamp, the AIM Research Training Program, some AI Governance research assistance and facilitated BlueDot Impact's AI Governance course. Currently I am Operations and Community Manager at Pivotal.
My Writing:
I am looking for generalist-type opportunities in the AI Safety or international relations space.
This was a great experience and I learnt a lot:
We really wanted to complete the project in a tight timeframe. I actually posted this 2 weeks after we finished because it was the first chance I had.
Some reflections:
I think that the amount of time we set aside was too short for us, and we could still have made worthwhile improvements with more time to reflect, such as:
(I'll come back and reply to this comment with more of my own reflections if I think of more and get more time in the next day or two) (edit: formatting)
Can applicants update their application after submitting?
This was an extremely useful feature of Lightspeed Grants, because the strength of my application significantly improved every couple of weeks.
If it’s not a built-in feature, can applicants link to a google doc?
Thank you answering our questions!
Thank you! Since it's (my) first post, it's helpful to have some positive encouragement.