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#52 – Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research

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Is There a Place for Systems Thinking?

The prioritization mindset requires you sometimes say something is less important than other things and that's kind of rude. So try to notice if you're like a pushed a bit towards saying something interconnection something something systems thinking because you don't want someone not just to take away from your cause area. The global catastrophic risk institute has a lot of papers that are about the intersections of things like AI and nuclear or bio and AI or something like that. I think decently often my take would be their papers are a bit too like laundry listy and in the way that like my early work was as well.

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