This week, we'll zoom away from AI alignment to discuss research itself: what is good research? How can we, as graduate students, develop a 'research taste' which allows us to intuit which directions are promising and important? 

Two short blog posts: https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/archive/000114.html
http://colah.github.io/notes/taste/

We'll meet Friday at 1. https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/2739792686?pwd=VkRUeHJkYnhvTzlvZzR6YnZWNERKQT09

Alex Turner