AI safety now draws teen savants; practitioner argues against dropping out of college
austinc3301 · x · 2026-11-11
An AI safety practitioner argues that while the field now has many 18-year-old savants doing great work, pushing them toward broader general education isn't worth the cost in slow-takeoff worlds — there's already a large pool of university graduates (or Ivy students wanting to quit after 1-2 years) to draw from.
He notes universities are inefficient but mostly train people well on fundamentals, and the gaps can be filled with specialized courses like ARENA for ML.
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