MIT researcher's tip for focused research discussions: anchor on motivation
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-08-29
Replying to a question about keeping research discussions on track, Dylan Hadfield-Menell says his approach so far is to put more effort into discussing the motivation behind the work: what claims you're trying to support and how each experiment relates to them. He notes this is still his own in-progress take.
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