Tamay Besiroglu

I mean, I'm not sure.

I think there is an extent to which it's difficult to deliberately pursue the implicit strategy that we would have pursued.

It probably works better if it's spontaneous and more driven by curiosity and interest than you make a deliberate choice.

Okay, I'm just going to learn about a bunch of things so that I can contribute to the discourse in AI.

I would think that strategy is probably less effective.

At least I haven't seen anyone who...

deliberately used that strategy and then was successful, it seems like.

Yeah, I mean, I think, like, in fact, one advice I would give to people in general, even if they're not, like, thinking about AI specifically, but I think it's also helpful for that, is just, like, people should just be much more aggressive about reaching out.

That's right.

Yeah, like, a lot of the communication that, like, maybe people have an impression that if you, like, reach out to someone who looks really important, then, like, they're not going to respond to you.

But, like, if what you send to them is just interesting and, like, high quality, then it's very, very likely that they will respond.

Yep.

There's a lot more edge there that you can get, which is just being more aggressive and less ashamed or something of looking dumb.

That's the main advice I would give.

Because if you want to be productive, then again, there are these complementarities and so on.

You need to be part of some community or some organization.

That's right.

So you should just like try to place yourself in a situation where you can become part of something larger, which is working on the front.

That's just a more effective way of contributing.

And to do that, you have to