Nathan Labenz: belief

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…I mean, it depends on your probabilities on the different scenarios, like what your portfolio would be. But at least for me, they're also pretty spread out. Yeah. Okay, let's keep moving through a couple of different other areas. I don't know if you have anything more to say about working at Frontier model companies. Is there, if there's not, we can move on. But if you have any other kind of specific advice, I think one of the things people are going to ask, there was a pretty good post on this just yesterday that we can link to in the show notes. I forget who it's from, but it was a I think a pre-training lead at Google. We got some plus ones from others around the space, including Sholta from Anthropic. It was very much leaning into just like grinding hard on technical skill. I don't know if you would second that or highlight anything else that you think is the most important way to position oneself for work at those companies. Obviously, it's super competitive. There's not a ton of They're hiring a lot, but it's still sufficiently competitive that I don't think it's an easy place to find your way into. So any other thoughts on that before we move on to kind of other venues for possible impact? You mean like advice on how to get jobs at these places? Yeah. this is just like very general purpose advice, but there's nothing to really substitute talking to people at the company and just saying, okay, if I was gonna do a three month crash course, to be in the best position possible to get this job, what should I do? And that answer will depend on different people. But often, learning technical skills is really useful, though they're also hiring a lot of other roles, so it would depend on what role you're going for. And yeah, I wouldn't have a ton to add on top of what people in those companies would say.…

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