Chris Olah

And again, just seeing if I could do it and then being like, if I can't, then, you know, that's fine. I tried. sort of the way I lead life, I think.

I think that sometimes people do this thing that I'm like not that keen on where they'll be like, is this person technical or not? Like you're either a person who can like code and isn't scared of math or you're like not. And I think I'm maybe just more like, I think a lot of people are actually very capable of working these kinds of areas if they just like try it.

I think that sometimes people do this thing that I'm like not that keen on where they'll be like, is this person technical or not? Like you're either a person who can like code and isn't scared of math or you're like not. And I think I'm maybe just more like, I think a lot of people are actually very capable of working these kinds of areas if they just like try it.

I think that sometimes people do this thing that I'm like not that keen on where they'll be like, is this person technical or not? Like you're either a person who can like code and isn't scared of math or you're like not. And I think I'm maybe just more like, I think a lot of people are actually very capable of working these kinds of areas if they just like try it.

And so I didn't actually find it like that bad. In retrospect, I'm sort of glad I wasn't speaking to people who treated it like it. You know, I've definitely met people who are like, whoa, you like learned how to code. And I'm like, well, I'm not like an amazing engineer. Like I'm surrounded by amazing engineers. My code's not pretty. But I enjoyed it a lot.

And so I didn't actually find it like that bad. In retrospect, I'm sort of glad I wasn't speaking to people who treated it like it. You know, I've definitely met people who are like, whoa, you like learned how to code. And I'm like, well, I'm not like an amazing engineer. Like I'm surrounded by amazing engineers. My code's not pretty. But I enjoyed it a lot.

And so I didn't actually find it like that bad. In retrospect, I'm sort of glad I wasn't speaking to people who treated it like it. You know, I've definitely met people who are like, whoa, you like learned how to code. And I'm like, well, I'm not like an amazing engineer. Like I'm surrounded by amazing engineers. My code's not pretty. But I enjoyed it a lot.

And I think that in many ways, at least in the end, I think I flourished like more in the technical areas than I would have in the policy areas.

And I think that in many ways, at least in the end, I think I flourished like more in the technical areas than I would have in the policy areas.

And I think that in many ways, at least in the end, I think I flourished like more in the technical areas than I would have in the policy areas.

Yeah. And I feel like I have kind of like one or two sticks that I hit things with, you know, and one of them is like arguments and like, you know, so like just trying to work out what a solution to a problem is and then trying to convince people that that is the solution and be convinced if I am wrong. And the other one is sort of more empiricism.

Yeah. And I feel like I have kind of like one or two sticks that I hit things with, you know, and one of them is like arguments and like, you know, so like just trying to work out what a solution to a problem is and then trying to convince people that that is the solution and be convinced if I am wrong. And the other one is sort of more empiricism.

Yeah. And I feel like I have kind of like one or two sticks that I hit things with, you know, and one of them is like arguments and like, you know, so like just trying to work out what a solution to a problem is and then trying to convince people that that is the solution and be convinced if I am wrong. And the other one is sort of more empiricism.

So like just like finding results, having a hypothesis, testing it. And I feel like a lot of policy and politics feels like it's layers above that. Like somehow I don't think if I was just like, I have a solution to all of these problems. Here it is written down. If you just want to implement it, that's great. That feels like not how policy works.

So like just like finding results, having a hypothesis, testing it. And I feel like a lot of policy and politics feels like it's layers above that. Like somehow I don't think if I was just like, I have a solution to all of these problems. Here it is written down. If you just want to implement it, that's great. That feels like not how policy works.

So like just like finding results, having a hypothesis, testing it. And I feel like a lot of policy and politics feels like it's layers above that. Like somehow I don't think if I was just like, I have a solution to all of these problems. Here it is written down. If you just want to implement it, that's great. That feels like not how policy works.

And so I think that's where I probably just like wouldn't have flourished is my guess.

And so I think that's where I probably just like wouldn't have flourished is my guess.

And so I think that's where I probably just like wouldn't have flourished is my guess.

Yeah, I think it depends on what they want to do. And in many ways, it's a little bit strange where I've... I thought it's kind of funny that I think I ramped up technically at a time when... Now I look at it and I'm like, models are so good at assisting people with this stuff that it's probably easier now than when I was working on this.