I'm planning to organize a mentorship programme for people who want to become researchers working on the Learning-Theoretic Agenda (LTA). I'm still figuring out the detailed plan, the logistics and the funding, but here's an outline of how it would looks like. To express interest, submit this form.

Why Apply?

I believe that the risk of a global catastrophe due to unaligned artificial superintelligence is the most pressing problem of our time. I also believe that the LTA is our last best chance to solving the technical alignment problem. Even if governance efforts succeed, they will only buy time: but we still need to use this time somehow. The LTA is how we use this time. (I also consider some other research agendas to be useful, but mostly inasmuch as they can be combined with LTA.)

Fortunately, the LTA has many shovel-ready research directions that can be advanced in [...]

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Outline:

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(01:16) Requirements

(02:11) Application Process

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(03:36) Programme Content

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First published:
February 16th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/m4NMk6EinRzvvvW5Y/gauging-interest-for-a-learning-theoretic-agenda-mentorship

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“Gauging Interest for a Learning-Theoretic Agenda Mentorship Programme” by Vanessa Kosoy

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“Gauging Interest for a Learning-Theoretic Agenda Mentorship Programme” by Vanessa Kosoy