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The ARENA curriculum is the best intro/resource for technical AI safety research. The main overview classes for the whole field is AI safety fundamentals. The best way to learn about opportunities in the field is by subscribing to the 80000 hours job board. The AIsafety.com map also has a bunch of fun links.
I'm now including a bunch of links to things, but honestly, you don't need to read all of them or even be aware of them to do good work/get started in the field. But there is a lot of lore out there, and I've picked out my personal favorite collection. When I got started I spent a ton of time hungrily going through them and feeling both overwhelmed and fascinated. They can be fun to read, but it's hard to feel like you're making actual progress if you're just reading stuff, so I'd prioritize working through the ARENA curriculum or AI safety fundamentals.
To get a sense of what people are working on now, there's an overview post from the end of last year, and you can also check out what mentors in SPAR and MATS are interested in.
Some good overview posts for various subfields:
There's a lot of literature out there scattered across LessWrong and other places. A hodge podge of things that I think are worth skimming/reading:
(Obviously I don't endorse all of these, in fact they contradict each other)
There are also earlier "overview of AI safety" curriculums from PIBBSS, Richard Ngo or Eleuther which are more conceptual than empirical.
Cognitive behavioural therapy in ten sessions for patients with non-underweight eating disorders. Excellent resources for those struggling with eating disorders. The therapy manual, though designed for therapists, can be used as a self-help guide. (Although the main author, Glenn Waller, has also published an explicit self-help guide, I would recommend reading the therapy manual as well since the self-help book is over ten years old and doesn't draw on the latest research). Here are two podcast episodes (1) (2) with Dr. Waller as a guest.
Amicus brief from the The Onion
"How the sun works? I just didn't care."
Watch Apollo 17 in real time: This website contains a ton of footage and photos from the Apollo missions. It so cool. Here's an iframe of it:
You know what's nearly as cool as space? SPACE MOUNTAIN
 | If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be J.-P. Serre's A Course in Arithmetic. Jean-Pierre Serre is Professor at the College de France. He has written a number of books, including "Algebraic Groups and Class Fields", "Local Fields", "Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras", "Linear Representations of Finite Groups", Collected Papers (3 volumes), and "Trees" published by Springer-Verlag. Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test |
Just to be clear: I have no idea what's going on in this textbook.A Course in Arithmetic is infamous for having the highest difficulty:appeared difficulty based on book title ratio.
The people want Teen Journal of Political economy
US Navy Dating Training Film 1967: How To Succeed with Brunettes (Thanks government) National archives catalog link
Sorry for the formatting I'll get to it later...
This person talks about her journey to Econ PhD.
This PDF from the AEA has an interview about the admissions.
AEA (American economics association) site for general information.
Williams has a bunch of great links here.
The resource page from UCSD looks not bad
Harvard's page with opportunities for econ people
What classes to take
Information about pre doctoral programs.
more predoc info
Barries to entry in econ
Advice on RA interviews
And also so that if I forget how to do something, I can come to this page and check and then copy paste the html back
I love how you can just embed other websites in your own website via iframes in html:
Click and drag on the map below and play around if you're bored
Draw anything here and they will make it into fourier series