Matt Beard
@matt_beard_
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Career advisor @80000Hours. Views my own, autoregressive.
Washington, DC
Joined August 2022
"Read Peter's Substack" is career advice I give on most days now. Check it out
Want to get involved in AI policy work? Today I'm featuring 15 fellowships and 10 additional roles that you can apply to in order to kick-start your AI policy career. Check them out!
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I loved this episode, highly recommended (not just for the props). There's a bunch of cool low hanging fruit in biosecurity and the field could use way more ambitious talent working to keep us safe!
Convention wisdom is that bioweapons are humanity's greatest weakness – 100x cheaper to make than to defend against. Andrew Snyder-Beattie thinks conventional wisdom is likely wrong. He has a plan cheap enough to do without government. Useful even in worst case scenarios like
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the narrow target for hope is still “towards a plurality of humanity loving AGIs”
$10,000 for a meme?! P(doom), the paperclip maximizer, Black Mirror, Brave New World, and 1984 are common references for dystopian futures. But where are the hopeful ones? For abundant clean energy, infinite knowledge, no infectious disease, no poverty, solved aging, and
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you’d be better informed listening to most of my anon AI twitter mutuals than the most popular podcast today
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How is it possible for the New York Times to get this so completely wrong? Apple ahead of Anthropic in AI? Did nobody read this before it went out?
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the AI agent startup I actually need is "turn these 15 PDFs into a nicely formatted and decent looking paperback book and let me order it." this shouldn't be that hard?
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"it's on trend for METR time horizons! it's on trend for METR time horizons" i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
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you should be more obsessive about developing rare and valuable skills! not less
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actually this is fine and good. you can work on interesting problems. you can earn a nice meal with someone you love. you can lift heavy things. you can read better books. where does this drive to reframe it all as some conspiracy come from
haven't been able to stop thinking about these two paragraphs the past month
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Using rare and valuable talents to build the infinite reward hack slop god
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I’m sorry you couldn’t pay me a trillion dollars to help this man build superintelligence. What are these people thinking
Zuck has struck again.
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Huge response to this tweet. Seems like people really want to use the 80,000 hours they have in their careers to do meaningful impactful work. If only a service existed to help them do this
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I’m hearing some people might be looking for a career change https://t.co/3YRFwqgAms
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Your career is not only a major driver of your happiness — it’s probably also your biggest opportunity to have a positive impact on the world.
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what are some of the most psychoactive tweets you've seen or bookmarked? tweets that basically altered your brain function/chemistry the moment you read them
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So many incredible AI policy opportunities right now. Apply!
🚨💼I'm hiring! And so are many other organizations I like. If you’re looking for a career in AI policy, now is an excellent time. I've selected a list of my favorite roles and if you like my tweets you're likely the target audience!
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🚀Come join my team at RAND! We’re looking for research leads, researchers, & project managers for our compute, US AI policy, Europe, & talent management teams. All teams have urgent, important work to do & broad options for the future. Some roles close July 27⏰
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OpenAI's operator, from the sound of it, barely works when it comes to bunch of things. Luckily, as we all know, it's really hard to go from 'barely works' to 'works' to 'superhuman' in AI, especially once you have the basic set up that gets you to 'barely works'.
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