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I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?
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I recently got a visceral sense that '''AI safety is harder than most things''' when I started writing my [https://taoanalysis.wordpress.com/ Tao Analysis Solutions] blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter from a different person. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?
  
 
I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.
 
I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.
  
 
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Revision as of 22:46, 18 May 2020

I recently got a visceral sense that AI safety is harder than most things when I started writing my Tao Analysis Solutions blog. After two months of near-daily blogging, I got blog comments from a smart-seeming high school student (?) and also a very nice thank you letter from a different person. In contrast, working on AI safety feels like .... there's absolutely no feedback on whether I'm doing anything useful?

I also had a similar feeling one day when I took a break from studying math and learned some microeconomics. The latter just felt so much easier.