David Mears
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(June 2023) Open to roles, probably at the intersection of tech and ops.
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On the wiki:
It seems like 'topics' are trying to serve at least two purposes: linking to wiki articles with info to orient people, and classifying/tagging forum posts. These purposes don't need to be so tied together as they currently are.
One could want to have e.g. 3 classification labels to help subdivide a topic (I think we currently have 'AI safety', 'AI risks', and 'AI alignment'), but that seems like a bad reason to write 3 separate similar articles, which duplicates effort in cases where the topics have a lot of overlap.
A lot of writing time could be saved if tags and wiki articles were split out such that closely related tags could point to the same wiki article.
Seems like these 'topics' are trying to serve at least two purposes: providing wiki articles with info to orient people, and classifying/tagging forum posts. These purposes don't need to be so tied together as they currently are. One could want to have e.g. 3 classification labels ('safety', 'risks', 'alignment'), but that seems like a bad reason to write 3 separate articles, which duplicates effort in cases where the topics have a lot of overlap.
A lot of writing time could be saved if tags/topics and wiki articles were split out such that closely related tags/topics could point to the same wiki article.
My hard-workingness is really dependent on my work context (e.g., whether I have a job or not). A graph of my hard-workingness over the past year peaks really strongly from Jan-March when I was working on EAGxCambridge, because of the soon and immovable deadlines, and being the main person responsible for it. I tracked 70 hrs/wk of work in the last month (unsustainable). In the meantime I've been far less hard-working (which I prefer). I think if I had a baby, I'd also become really hard-working, because I'd be one of the people most responsible for the 'project'.
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I just submitted what you said.
Thanks, really helpful to have this overview, makes me more likely to read the sequence itself (partly by directing me to which parts cover what)