There is room for something like RAISE

Self-studying all of the technical prerequisites for technical AI safety research is hard. The most that people new to the field get is a list of textbooks. I think there is room for something like what RAISE was trying to become: some sort of community/detailed resource/support structure/etc for people studying this stuff.

Here are some more concrete ideas:

• Detailed solutions for all of the prerequisite math books, e.g. for the ones listed at [1]. I've started on one example of this at [2] (though I'm writing that blog for other reasons as well).
• A network of tutors or people who have already worked through a particular book, where you can ask them questions in a really low friction way.
• Writing up actually good explanations for things like Solomonoff induction, belief propagation, Markov chain Monte Carlo, etc.
• Redpilling people about spaced repetition and other effective learning techniques.